On the Wall
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Feline Review. oil on wood board
It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. St Luke 4-4
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Quotations of earthly artists
If I did'nt start painting I would have raised chickens
Granma Moses (US Folk Painter)
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings. I see only science. Georges Seurat
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living. Robert Henri(US painter)
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Daydreams as it were: I look out the window sometimes to seek the colour of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint. I just close my eyes and imagine the scene. Granma Moses 1860-1961
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All men are creative, but few are artist. Paul Goodmand (US poet).
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) US poet & Philosopher
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) French diarist.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
Jackson Pollock 191201956 US painter
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forgot, in this-as in other ways-they are the oppostie of paintings. paintings record what the painter remembers.
John Berger English painter
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent Van Gogh.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
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There is a logic of colours, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. Paul Cezanne
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Eugene Delacroix
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I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso
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My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness. Michelangelo
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. William Blake
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings, I see only science. Georges Seurat.
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Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint sea as rough as that.I don't see how he keeps his canvas dry. US Actress.
midi copyright New Hope music
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