#painting

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

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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

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I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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A painting that is well composed is half finished. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

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I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

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I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy-three I have at last caught every aspect of nature–birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further and I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life. - from Hokusai’s ‘The Art Crazy Old Man ↗

— Hokusai Katsushika

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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ↗

— Dawn French

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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. ↗

— Lorenz Hart

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If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures. ↗

— Edwin Henry Landseer

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