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Painting Quotes by Michelangelo
- The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes...…
- Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music…
- For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and…
- Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
- Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt…
- It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter…
- I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all…
- What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in…
- It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of…
- In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion…
- Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for…
- A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
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- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- 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
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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