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The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. LOUIS L'AMOUR
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A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is. CHLOE THURLOW
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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. JOSEF ALBERS
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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. JEFF MELVOIN
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ends, is nothing but a noble and e... JOHN RUSKIN express his First Amendment right by picking up a spray can and painting a canvas with [him].
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a pain... ABHIJIT NASKAR
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. ALBERT CAMUS
I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. GIORGIO ARMANI It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own?...
ELISABETH AGRO
Well, I have a very simple method of painting. EDWARD HOPPER
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She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting JANDY NELSON
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
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FRANCESCO BONAMI
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting... JONI MITCHELL It was definitely a right hand and not a head butt that opened her eye. She was slightly crouched ov...
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ROBERT MERRILL I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
COLIN FARRELL A great painting is a great painting.
LARRY POONS I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.
JAMIE WYETH Paint what you feel rather than what you see, because it is feeling that make a painting good.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak. AESCHYLUS I never knew how dangerous art could be because if it wasn't, why would someone break into my studio...
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BILL SATURNO I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them t...
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CONRAD COLEMAN Painting is by nature a luminous language.
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