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Letter "P" » painters
«Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.»
Author: John Ciardi
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Art
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«Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.»
Author: Walter Gropius
(Architect)
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«A distinction is made between painters who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Personally, I think neither of these methods must be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Both may be used in turn by the same indivi»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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«Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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Art,
Painting
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«Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black»
«Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.»
«There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Intelligence
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painters, spot, the help, The Yellow, transform, yellow, yellowing, yellow spot
«There are painters that can change the sun into a yellow blot, but there are others, that due to their talent and intelligence can change a yellow blot into the sun.»
«It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.»
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