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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
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Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.
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Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853) 1838 -
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
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No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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