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Painter Quotes by Marlene Dumas
- What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist…
- Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a…
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- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau
- Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. — J. G. Ballard
- There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne
- The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — G. H. Hardy
- Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain
- The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter
- If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey