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"Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . ." Leon Alberti
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"It's the best job. I was getting tired and cranky with teaching painting." MaryJo Tuttle
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"It's like looking at a painting by [Claude] Monet. The closer you look the more there is to see." Jason Gilkison
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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth." John Sargent
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American Artist    Painting   

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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself." Pierre Bonnard
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French Artist    Painting   

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"I actively support art programs that teach kids the basics. Painting and drawing are terrific tools to build self-esteem and creativity in children. I'm also very committed to World Vision, an organization that reaches out to impoverished kids the world over. Anything that brings hope to children, I'm in favor of." Thomas Kinkade
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Painting    Self-esteem   

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"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." Mao Zedong
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Painting    Revolutions And Revolutionaries   

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"There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain." Andre Malraux
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Pablo Picasso

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

"I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same." Pablo Picasso
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"I had completely forgotten about the painting," John Elderfield
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Sunlight is painting." Nathaniel Hawthorne
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American Novelist    Painting   

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"She was my high school sweetheart. I hide an 'N' in every painting." Thomas Kinkade
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"It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint." Aime Cesaire
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French Poet    Painting   

Albert Camus

"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting." Albert Camus
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French Philosopher    Painting   

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"What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its own strange inevitability that resists us and we can never finally know what it is we are doing until the work is finished... It is as if the picture paints itself through us, the story tells itself through us, has a larger existence of which we know nothing." Alex Miller
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"The only thing stupider than making a painting was making a representational painting, and of all the genres the most dead and seemingly bankrupt was portraiture." Chuck Close
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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art" Albrecht Durer
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"Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly." Mao Tse-Tung
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Andy Warhol

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, "Well, what do you love most?" That's how I started painting money." Andy Warhol
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"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth." Alice Miller
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Painting    Swiss Psychologist   

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Birth: 1940-11-27 Death: 1973-07-20

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