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Picture Quotes by Robert Motherwell
- Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
- I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.
- In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it…
- It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a…
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- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- I start a picture and I finish it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. — Ambrose Bierce
- I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing… — Bjork
- Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one… — Aeschylus
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus