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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”
Leonardo da Vinci
“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”
Albert Camus
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Pablo Picasso
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
“A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder”
Chester W. Nimitz
“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.”
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
Abraham Maslow
“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
“My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.”
Rene Magritte
