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Famous Quotes about painting

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ( William Shakespeare)

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ( Pablo Picasso)

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ( Pablo Picasso)

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. (Vincent van Gogh)

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ( Pablo Picasso)

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind. ( Leonardo da Vinci)

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. (Adolf Hitler)

“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. ( Winston Churchill)

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. (Michelangelo)

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. ( Henri Matisse)

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