Description Quote by Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

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

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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

“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or…

— Irving Stone

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

“Like all paintings, the portrait was ruined at the first stroke of paint; it would never be exactly as she had imagined it, and…

— Christopher Bollen

“And, as in the case of sensible images, if the artist look without distraction upon the archetypal form, not distracted by sight of anything…

— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

“My descendants will manage without my portrait' she smiled. Anyway they'll have plenty of photographs of me. To this our famous conductor replied that…

— Anatoli Rybakov