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Oscar Wilde

“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”

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Susan Sontag

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

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Claude Monet

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

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William Blake

“He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.”

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Josephine Baker

“A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.”

Josephine Baker

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Claude Monet

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

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James Whistler

“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano”

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Jackson Pollock

“I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.”

Jackson Pollock

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Walter Gropius

“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”

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William Blake

“There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and the same person,”

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