25 result(s) for Quotes About Tears And Paintings.
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."
"If I cry, they tape it in front of the fireplace. I can't even cry!"
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"A picture is a poem without words."
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
"Every good painter paints what he is."
"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always understand my meanings, you would soon get tired of me."
"There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another."
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
"Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams."
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"Creativity takes courage."
"An empty canvas is full."
"I don't paint nature. I am nature."
