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452 Painter Quotes

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Arse Everyone Except Man
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

Because Black Dislike He
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Anybody He Little Made
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Nothing recedes like progress.

Like Nothing Progress Recedes
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We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Want Suddenly Disallowed
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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Live Poetry Far Anybody
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I'm trying to climb up both walls at once

Trying Climb Walls Once
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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Read Interesting Tell Truth
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Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

Fantasy Abandoned Reason Produces
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But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Nature Lines Luminous Masses
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I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

See Forms Light Shadow
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First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

First Magnificent Artist
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The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

Painting Heart Telling Salvation
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I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.

Beginning Have More Powerful
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With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

Work Shares Academy Bank
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I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend.

Establish Myself Enviable Manner
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. Together

Painting Poetry Chooses Universal
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In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
Need Color Light Shade
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Flower Vase Smiles Longer
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Art Nature Speeded-up God
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Expression Words Never Coincide
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Laughter Regional Smile Extends
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Women Make Poets Children
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Family Court Justice Shuts
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

God Waiting Admit Importunate
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
Women Eat Talking Men
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Woman Keep Quiet Right
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Mind Distracted Sorts Heart
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Sometimes Laugh Ear Impossible
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Man Laugh Votes Measure
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My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.
Paint Job Know See
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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

Eye Imagination Addresses Ideas
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I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.
Hard Work Genius Mastery Hard
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To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

Beautiful Art Select Painter Art Is Admirable
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I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

Marriage Wedding Art Hate
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There's a sketch at every turn.
There Sketch Every Turn
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Painting is a strange business.
Painting Strange Business Is a
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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Architecture Painting Company Nose
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Bread Just Just As Much Light
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Drawing Faster Leaves Less
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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Beautiful Catastrophe Hundred Hundred Times
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Chest Home Living Should
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture Correct Forms Game
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture Create Function Objects
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

About Acquainted After Aware
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Every good painter paints what he is.
Every Good He Painter
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Contact Easy Give Give And Take
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Come Does Painting Easel
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Before Canvas Ever Hardly
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Am Around Ease Feel
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