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Painting Quotes by Robert Henri
- Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
- If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work…
- There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
- The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
- There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her.…
- Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't…
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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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