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I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

Marc Chagall
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Man Ray
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Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. -John Sloan
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For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Paul Cezanne
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Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Rene Magritte
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Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. -Paul Klee
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Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Robert Motherwell
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. -Jacques Lipchitz
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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Neil Simon
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Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Frank Capra
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat. -Pierre-auguste Renoir
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If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

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

Edgar Degas
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. -Ellen Key
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A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Ernst Haas
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If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

George Bernard Shaw
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A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs. -Clifford Stoll
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -Danny Kaye
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent van Gogh
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. -Abraham Maslow
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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman
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Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

Julian Green
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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. -John Erskine
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein
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We got a lot better looks, penetrated and got shots in the paint.

Wil Smudde
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. -Henry David Thoreau
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