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Painter Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,…
- Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the…
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,…
- every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.…
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- There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne
- A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne
- The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne