Painting Quotes

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A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

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In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. - John Ruskin quote.
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

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A painting is like a man.  If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. - Samuel Coleridge quote.
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
Painting is only a bridge linking the painter's mind with that of the viewer. - Eugène Delacroix quote.
Painting is only a bridge linking the painter's mind with that of the viewer.
It isn't enough to have the eyes of a gazelle . . . you also need the claws of a cat in order to capture your bird alive and play with it before you eat it, and so join its life to yours. This is the mystery of painting.
Like a guide dog, paintings help you see. - Martin Mull quote.
Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.
Painting is not made to decorate apartments.  It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. - Pablo Picasso quote.
Painting is not made to decorate apartments.  It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight. - James Abbott McNeill Whistler quote.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.