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Painting Quotes by Edvard Munch
- The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
- It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and…
- By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was…
- I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down…
- One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor
- Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
- This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil…
- The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as…
- Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I…
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- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
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- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat