Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls... view

By: Mary MacLane

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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie... view

By: Carl Sandburg

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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal... view

By: Norman Vincent Peale

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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design... view

By: Herbert Simon

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Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression... view

By: Camille Pissarro

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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things... view

By: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife... view

By: Roald Dahl

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Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer... view

By: Billy Carter

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Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'.. view

By: Peter Malkin

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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now... view

By: Mike Fink

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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible... view

By: Balthus

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