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Letter "P" » Painting
«My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.»
Author: Edward Hopper
(Painter)
| About:
Nature,
Painting
| Keywords:
intimate, My Aim, transcription
«I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.»
Author: Man Ray
(Film Director, Painter, Photographer)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
photographed, unconscious
«Life obliges me to do something, so I paint»
«Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.»
Author: Robert Motherwell
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
European, mask, rejected, subject matter, The European, The Mask
«My curves are not crazy.»
«Most women are not as young as they are painted.»
«I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.»
«Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black»
«I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
allegorical, paintings, portrait, Show Me
«Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Painting
| Keywords:
Cupid, painted, winged
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