"How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all."
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"I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me."
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"Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work."
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"It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting."
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"To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems."
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"Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting."
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"What has reasoning to do with painting?"
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"What has reason to do with the art of painting?"
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"A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words."
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"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
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"All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting."
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"People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence."
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"The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise."
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"Teach the children! It is painting in fresco."
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"There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?"
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"Painting demands an intelligent model."
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"It is the painting that makes me so happy these days."
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"What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting."
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"A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed."
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"The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture."
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