Painters And Painting

(430 votes)   Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(422 votes)   I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890, Dutch-born French Painter

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(334 votes)   A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci
1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor

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(316 votes)   What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(290 votes)   I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

Henri De Toulouse Lautrec

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(265 votes)   Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890, Dutch-born French Painter

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(191 votes)   In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(153 votes)   The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

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(149 votes)   Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(147 votes)   I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Pierre Auguste Renoir
1841-1919, French Impressionist Artist

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(102 votes)   Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

Simonides

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(99 votes)   Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Hamerton

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