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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Quote by Edgar Degas about painting, idea, contentment

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Quote by Jackson Pollock about painting, life

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about opinion, painting, world

A paint is a mode of reality.

Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein about art, reality

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about light

The subject is to the painter what the rails are to the locomotive. He cannot do without it.

Quote by Diego Rivera about art

To gild rafined gold, to paint the lily.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy

And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, blind

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

Quote by Randy Bachman about rocks, need, contentment

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art, faith, people

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

Quote by Bruce Barton about affair, artists

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

Quote by Kim Basinger about contentment

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about existence, hope, truth, nothing, face

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly...

Quote by Placido Domingo about charm, voice

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Quote by Billy Joel about poets, writers, artists, life

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about world

A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

I can picture things, like a painter would, though I'm not good at painting, either.

Quote by Donald O'Connor about opinion, painting, things, good, good luck

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale.

Quote by Kelly Osbourne about humor