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I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
Heaven
Jean-Baptiste Corot

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Portraits
Charles Dickens

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Arts and Artists
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Painters and Painting
Hamerton

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Sunlight is painting.
Painters and Painting
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Life and Living
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Painters and Painting
Joseph Joubert

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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
Censorship
D. H. Lawrence

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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
Photography
Janet Malcolm

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Arts and Artists
Grandma Moses

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Painters and Painting
Pablo Picasso

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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Sculptures
Pablo Picasso

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Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Painters and Painting
Georges Rouault

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Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
Painters and Painting
Simonides

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Painters and Painting
Vincent Van Gogh

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Painters and Painting
Vincent Van Gogh

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun