577 Quotes About Painting



  • Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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    Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative.

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  • Author Sarah Jio
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    You must tune everything else out and create from your heart."I nod, dipping my brush in red acrylic, then white, before mixing the paints on the palette until they form a perfect pink.I paint a peony, and then another. I somehow recall a garden, far away from here, where there were (are?) peonies. I remember the way the blossoms are so heavy that they flounce over, and I reach for another brush and dip it into green to get the stems just right.

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