#painting

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. ↗

— Grandma Moses

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The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

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They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model") ↗

— Hume Nisbet

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Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way. ↗

— Carol Brearley

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I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

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To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

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The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. ↗

— O. Henry

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