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Art is about painting. All the rest is just a sideshow – Geoff Bunn	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. – Mao Zedong	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. – Marguerite Duras	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do. – Bob Ross	added by anonymous 11 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel. – Eduard Hanslick	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. – John Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. – Simonides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself. – William Baziotes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. – Jeff Melvoin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' – Igor Stravinsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. – Pablo Picasso	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. – Ambrose Bierce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. – Sri da Avabhas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. – Truman Capote	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Auguste Renoir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. - from the Joy of Painting – Bob Ross	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. – Harriet	added by anonymous 14 years ago
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. – Oprah Winfrey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly. – Mao Zedong	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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