577 Quotes About Painting


  • Author Winston Churchill
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    Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost to the end, of the day.

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  • Author Félix Fénéon
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    Une cuisse, une fleur, un chignon, ballerines contordues en l'envol du tutu; le nez d'un pompier; rashers et jockeys évoluant sur le vert; une main de modiste dans une palpitation de plumes et de rubans; des cires peintes qui vivent. Cinématique infaillible. Les roueries des lumières artificielles surprises. Le Moderne exprimé.

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  • Author Vincent Van Gogh
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    One night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad; it was- beautiful. The deep blue sky was flicked with clouds of a blue deeper than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a clearer blue, like the blue whiteness of the Milky Way. On the blue depth the stars were sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, rose, brighter, flashing more like jewels than they do even in Paris. The sea was a very deep ultramarine.

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  • Author Lynne Ewing
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    Jimena stopped in front of a locker near a floor-length mirror."This one was Catty's," she said softly.A watercolor painting of the full moon rising over an ocean was taped to the front. A beautiful woman hovered behind the moon, her purple robe billowing into the starry sky behind her. The image was haunting."Did she do the painting?" Tianna asked. "It's really pretty."Jimena nodded. "She was a good artist.

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