#painting

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. ↗

— O. Henry

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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. ↗

— Robert Henri

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Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. ↗

— Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn

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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Art is a harmony parallel with nature ↗

— Paul Cézanne

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Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.

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— Jarod Kintz

#batman #cave-painting #art

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplace or probing authoritatively the unknown. ::: Brett Whiteley ::: ↗

— Brett Whiteley

#drawing #inspirational #painting #art

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

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