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  • As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

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  • Boris Pasternak As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Barry McGee Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Siri Hustvedt Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
    Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (2006) 12
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Alan Bean I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Johnson I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Andy Warhol If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Brad Holland In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Bridget Riley In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
    The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Albert Camus It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Banksy It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Agnes Martin My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Ansel Adams Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Joan Didion Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Ad Reinhardt Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
    Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Billy Carter Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
    Billy Carter
    American businessman, brewer, and politician (1937 - 1988)
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  • Caio Fonseca So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • Paul Klee The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Balthus The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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