Best Painting Wisdom

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Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them. — Paula Rego
Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can… — Unknown Author
Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. — Kazimir Malevich
Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start to see what… — Unknown Author
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… — Yves Klein
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually… — Freydoon Rassouli
Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself. — Anne Jackson
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he… — Yves Klein
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo
Painting is saying "Ta" to God. — Stanley Spencer
I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides. — Susan Rothenberg
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we… — Okakura Kakuzo
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever… — A. Alfred Taubman
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as… — John Constable
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation. — Francisco Goya
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. — Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. — William Baziotes
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. — Albert Barnes
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of… — Unknown Author
The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes. — Eugene Delacroix
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! — Max Liebermann
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens… — Joseph Addison
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like the painting experts… — Ray Comfort

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