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• The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

  Marion Milner

  Eye, Likes, Should

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• Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.

  Francisco Goya

  Art, Titles, Virtue

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• Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.

  Michelangelo

  Stress, Mind, Sculpture

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• Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Research, Logical

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• There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wells, True Things, Ifs

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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• Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Language, Abstract, Objects

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• The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Light, Landscape

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• Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

  Pablo Picasso

  Green, Impossible, Wells

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• The vast amount of time it takes to make my paintings is very challenging. I have so many exciting ideas I would love to bring to a final painting, but my time-consuming technique limits the number of ideas that get to become a painting.

  Mark Ryden

  Challenges, Exciting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

  George W. Bush

  Space, Mind, Lasts

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• If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  John Ruskin, Cook (1905). “Works”

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• I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

  John Constable

  Looks, World, Information

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 11, 2013

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• The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

  Banksy

  White, People, Looks

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

  Gary Panter

  Tired, Focus, Different

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Taken, Breasts, Ifs

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes". Book by Tibballs Geoff, p. 80, 2012.

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• The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

  Sara Genn

  Keys, Guidance, Timeless

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• If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

  David Luiz

  Black And White, Artistic Life, Trying

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• Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

  Amy Sillman

  Teacher, Art, Cheerleader

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• Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Beautiful, Nice, Blue

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

  David Luiz

  Burning, Sometimes

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• It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

  David Luiz

  Fear, Artist, Strange

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• The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

  David Luiz

  Infinite, Possibility, Unification

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• Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.

  David Luiz

  Beautiful, Powerful, Mean

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