#painting

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ↗

— Julie Harris

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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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Painting is by nature a luminous language. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#big #follow #go #how #i

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ↗

— Edgar Degas

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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. ↗

— Edgar Degas

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