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“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.”

— Blaise Pascal

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

— John Ruskin

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in…

— John Ruskin

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness…

— Stephen Shore