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| F. Murray Abraham |
Milos said, You're my first...
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| Aeschylus |
Ah, lives of men! When...
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| Josef Albers |
Simultaneous contrast is not just...
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| Ralph Allen |
Without a good cultural policy...
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| Ralph Bakshi |
Painting pictures didn't make me...
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| Balthus |
Painting is a language which...
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| Balthus |
Painting is a source of...
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| Balthus |
Painting is the passage from...
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| Balthus |
Painting what I experience, translating...
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| Balthus |
The craft of painting has...
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| Cecilia Bartoli |
The goal is always to make...
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| Georg Baselitz |
I always feel attacked when...
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| Georg Baselitz |
I always work out of...
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| Georg Baselitz |
I had always loved expressionist...
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| Alan Bean |
I found I have to stay...
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| Max Beckmann |
I hardly need to abstract...
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| Max Beckmann |
Painting constantly appeared to me...
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| Max Beckmann |
I believe the reason I love...
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| Max Beckmann |
Painting is a very difficult...
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| Max Beckmann |
Painting is a very difficult...
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| Max Beckmann |
I believe that the reason why...
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| John Berger |
Unlike any other visual image...
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Painting, n.: The art of...
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| Kathryn Bigelow |
My movement from painting to...
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| Kathryn Bigelow |
Whereas painting is a more...
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| Theodore Bikel |
In my world, history comes...
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| Harrison Birtwistle |
I think music has gone through...
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| Jacqueline Bisset |
I am a great lover of...
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| William Blake |
Poetry fettered, fetters the human...
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| Maurice Blanchot |
Lovers of painting and lovers...
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| Giotto di Bondone |
Every painting is a voyage...
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| Pierre Bonnard |
A painting that is well...
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| Pierre Bonnard |
You cannot possibly invent painting...
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| David Bowie |
I felt I really wanted to...
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| Georges Braque |
Painting is a nail to which...
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| Jean de la Bruyere |
There are certain things in...
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| Gavin Bryars |
As I had collaborated with...
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| Lindsey Buckingham |
Some days I would be there...
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| Lindsey Buckingham |
When I work alone, my process...
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| Lord Byron |
A man of eighty has outlived...
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| Albert Camus |
It is not your paintings I...
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| Max Cannon |
I hope to actually get back...
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| Truman Capote |
Writing has laws of perspective...
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| Rosanne Cash |
Being in the studio is like...
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| Aime Cesaire |
It is no use painting the...
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| Paul Cezanne |
When I judge art, I take...
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| Paul Cezanne |
Painting from nature is not...
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| Paul Cezanne |
Painting is damned difficult - you...
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| Paul Cezanne |
I want to die painting.
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| Paul Cezanne |
I am more a friend of...
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| Paul Cezanne |
I have sworn to die painting...
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| Marc Chagall |
When I am finishing a picture...
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| William Merritt Chase |
I don't believe in making...
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| Kate Chopin |
He greatly valued his possessions...
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| Winston Churchill |
I am never going to have...
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| Les Claypool |
I don't know if it was...
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| Chuck Close |
You know, the way art history...
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| Chuck Close |
Painting is the most magical...
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| Jonathan Coe |
As the books grew bigger and...
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| Alice Cooper |
It's Frank's painting on the...
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| Gustave Courbet |
Painting is the representation of...
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| Gustave Courbet |
Painting is an essentially concrete...
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| Ronny Cox |
I much prefer playing the bad...
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| Tony Curtis |
Painting is much more than...
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| Tony Curtis |
But where there is no art...
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| Tony Curtis |
Now I'm a painter. That was...
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| Dick Dale |
Every song is like a painting...
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| Salvador Dali |
Painting is an infinitely minute...
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| Jonathan Davis |
I don't like painting flowers...
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| Mac Davis |
I still have an old painting...
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| Edgar Degas |
Painting is easy when you...
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| Edgar Degas |
In painting you must give the...
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| Robert Delaunay |
Painting is by nature a...
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| Robert Delaunay |
Nature engenders the science of...
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| Robert Delaunay |
It is this research into pure...
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| Robert Delaunay |
Impressionism; it is the birth...
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| Catherine Deneuve |
I would have liked maybe to...
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| Maurice Denis |
Remember that a painting - before...
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| Nigel Dennis |
So about twenty years ago I...
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| Andre Derain |
The substance of painting is...
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| Jackie DeShannon |
I'm very interested to see how...
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| Charles Dickens |
There are only two styles of...
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| Denis Diderot |
When superstition is allowed to...
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| Otto Dix |
Everybody thinks they know what...
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| Otto Dix |
Not that painting would have...
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| Otto Dix |
All art is exorcism. I paint...
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| Bill Dixon |
In the middle 1940s... I heard...
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| Anthony Doerr |
My sister-in-law is a...
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| Richard Donner |
I was painting sets, working...
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| Minnie Driver |
Last year my boyfriend gave me...
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| Marguerite Duras |
No other human being, no woman...
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| Albrecht Durer |
And since geometry is the...
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| John Dyer |
I have been surrounded by...
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| John Dyer |
I still take photographs for...
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| John Dyer |
My father is a well known...
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| John Dyer |
Painting is really good fun, I...
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| John Dyer |
The majority of my work is...
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| George Eads |
I've been trying to pick up...
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| Sergei Eisenstein |
For example, in painting the...
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| Sergei Eisenstein |
Language is much closer to...
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| Sergei Eisenstein |
Now why should the cinema...
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| Max Ernst |
Painting is not for me either...
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| John Erskine |
Lets tell young people the...
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| Morton Feldman |
I want to give my compliments...
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
The paintings may communicate even...
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| Bryan Ferry |
But when I started writing...
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| Timothy Findley |
Somehow, the painting soothed him...
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| Howard Finster |
But, when I had this feeling...
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| Minnie Maddern Fiske |
People whose understanding and taste...
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| Henry Flynt |
I was a student at Harvard...
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| Henry Flynt |
In classical oil painting, there...
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| Dan Fogelberg |
Coming out of college with a...
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| Jodie Foster |
Knowing what paint a painter...
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| James Franco |
I needed an outlet in high...
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| Dawn French |
If I had been around when...
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| Lucian Freud |
I am only interested in...
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| Lucian Freud |
Painting is sometimes like those...
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| Lucian Freud |
When I look at a body...
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| Milton Friedman |
The greatest advances of civilization...
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| Caspar David Friedrich |
If he sees nothing within...
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| Vincent Van Gogh |
I dream my painting, and then...
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| Vincent Van Gogh |
I dream of painting and then...
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| Vincent Van Gogh |
Painting is a faith, and it...
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| Vincent Van Gogh |
I can very well do without...
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| Edmond de Goncourt |
A painting in a museum hears...
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| Nelson Goodman |
Coming to understand a painting...
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| Michael Graves |
I see architecture not as...
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| John Guare |
Does any art have a practical...
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| Philip Guston |
Painting is an illusion, a...
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| Philip Guston |
I don't know what a painting...
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| Philip Guston |
Look at any inspired painting...
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| Philip Guston |
Painting and sculpture are very...
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| Philip Guston |
The painting is not on a...
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| Philip Guston |
Painting seems like some kind...
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| Philip Guston |
In my experience a painting is...
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| Conrad Hall |
Painting and writing are solitary...
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| Chico Hamilton |
I'm quite sure that all true...
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| Keith Haring |
I think you have to control...
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| Julie Harris |
God comes to us in theater...
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Sunlight is painting.
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| Robyn Hitchcock |
Well, I've been painting for...
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| Howard Hodgkin |
I hate painting.
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| Howard Hodgkin |
When I finish a painting, it...
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| Howard Hodgkin |
A painting is finished when...
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| Hans Hofmann |
Through a painting we can see...
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| Hans Hofmann |
My aim in painting is to...
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| William Hogarth |
I have generally found that...
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| Brad Holland |
If they were starting their...
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| Brad Holland |
In America, the only truly...
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Life is painting a picture...
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| Edward Hopper |
My aim in painting has always...
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| Edward Hopper |
Painting will have to deal...
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| Edward Hopper |
The trend in some of the...
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| Edward Hopper |
Well, I have a very simple...
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| Robert Hughes |
Landscape is to American painting...
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| John Hurt |
My parents felt that acting...
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| Julio Iglesias |
When the painting is hanging...
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| Robert Indiana |
Some people like to paint...
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| Robert Indiana |
I think of my peace paintings...
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| Michael Ironside |
When I was in art college...
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| Joseph Jarman |
You know, face painting in non...
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| Jasper Johns |
I think a painting should...
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| Jasper Johns |
Most of the power of painting...
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| Chuck Jones |
Painting does what we cannot...
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| Donald Judd |
The older painting - well, it...
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| Donald Judd |
Well, I am not interested in...
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| Donald Judd |
Well, I don't think anyone now...
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| Frida Kahlo |
My painting carries with it...
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| Frida Kahlo |
Painting completed my life.
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| Jackie Kennedy |
I don't understand it. Jack...
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| Corita Kent |
A painting is a symbol for...
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| William Kent |
All gardening is landscape painting...
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| Nancy Kerrigan |
My hobbies are painting, crafts...
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| Thomas Kinkade |
The worlds I paint leave a...
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| Thomas Kinkade |
I'm working on a snow scene...
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| Klaus Kinski |
You don't need a framework...
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| Gustav Klimt |
After tea it's back to...
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| Gustav Klimt |
If the weather is good I...
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| Gustav Klimt |
Sometimes I miss out the...
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| Franz Kline |
The final test of a painting...
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| Heidi Klum |
I love painting.
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| Kenneth Koch |
I love painting and music, of...
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| Kenneth Koch |
I was influenced by surrealist...
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| John A. Kouwenhoven |
No painting can tell the truth...
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| Lee Krasner |
Painting... in which the inner...
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| Lee Krasner |
People were very affected by...
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| Lee Krasner |
Well, let's say we acknowledged...
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| John Kricfalusi |
I influenced the BG style by...
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| John Kricfalusi |
You buy any book on color...
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| Sylvia Kristel |
I still have agents in France...
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| Neil LaBute |
I wanted to make these people...
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| Hedy Lamarr |
A good painting to me has...
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| Edwin Landseer |
If people only knew as much...
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| Fernand Leger |
This truth must be recognized...
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| Jack Levine |
Now painting is different. It's...
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| Roy Lichtenstein |
But when I worked on a...
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| Roy Lichtenstein |
I kind of do the drawing...
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| Roy Lichtenstein |
Pop Art looks out into the...
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| Roy Lichtenstein |
Yes, you know sometimes, we...
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| Pierre Loti |
Painting and music were the...
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| Rene Magritte |
My painting is visible images...
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| Janet Malcolm |
If you scratch a great...
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| Kazimir Malevich |
Painting is the aesthetic side...
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| Peter Malkin |
Writing and Painting are the...
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| John Malkovich |
You can't work in the movies...
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| Andre Malraux |
To the humblest among them...
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| Andre Malraux |
The crucial discovery was made...
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| Edouard Manet |
No one can be a painter...
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| Buffy Sainte-Marie |
The paintings are transferred from...
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| Buffy Sainte-Marie |
The key is in remaining just...
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| Buffy Sainte-Marie |
As a teenager I started...
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| Abraham Maslow |
A first-rate soup is more...
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| Abraham Maslow |
A first rate soup is better...
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| Robert Merrill |
I felt I was painting with...
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| Michelangelo |
Good painting is the kind that...
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| John Milius |
Writing requires a great deal...
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| Alice Miller |
I was not out to paint...
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| Rebecca Miller |
Every milieu has something ridiculous...
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| Joan Miro |
I feel the need of attaining...
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| Joni Mitchell |
At the point where I'm trying...
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| Joni Mitchell |
With a painting, you don't...
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| Claude Monet |
No one is an artist unless...
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| James Mooney |
The dance commonly begins about...
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| Cleo Moore |
Painting self-portraits without clothes...
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| Ikue Mori |
The way I create music is...
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| Viggo Mortensen |
In a movie, you're raw...
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| Grandma Moses |
If I hadn't started painting...
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| Grandma Moses |
Painting's not important. The important...
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| Robert Motherwell |
Most painting in the European...
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| Martin Mull |
Around 1980, I went back to...
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| Martin Mull |
I try to not get to...
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| Edvard Munch |
This kind of painting with its...
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| Edvard Munch |
Painting picture by picture, I...
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| Edvard Munch |
By painting colors and lines...
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| Joe Murray |
I had to catch up with...
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| Robert Musil |
What is the use of good...
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
Turning one's novel into a...
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| Barnett Newman |
I hope that my painting has...
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| Jason Newsted |
It all has to do with...
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| Kenneth Noland |
I think of painting without...
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| Renee O'Connor |
Painting is a hobby for me...
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| Georgia O'Keeffe |
It was in the 1920s, when...
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| John O'Neill |
In painting feathers, you want...
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| Conor Oberst |
If the world could remain...
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| Patton Oswalt |
90% of every art form is...
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| Jack Paar |
Doing the show was like...
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| Blaise Pascal |
Eloquence is a painting of the...
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| William Lyon Phelps |
If I didn't start painting, I...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Painting is just another way...
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| Pablo Picasso |
One must act in painting as...
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| Pablo Picasso |
One does a whole painting for...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Sculpture is the best comment...
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| Pablo Picasso |
I have a horror of people...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Painting is a blind man's...
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| Pablo Picasso |
One does a whole painting for...
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| Steven Pinker |
Art works because it appeals...
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| Plutarch |
Painting is silent poetry, and...
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| Sydney Pollack |
I mean, certainly writing, painting...
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| Jackson Pollock |
It is only when I lose...
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| Jackson Pollock |
My painting does not come from...
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| Jackson Pollock |
I hardly ever stretch the...
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| Jackson Pollock |
On the floor I am more...
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| Jackson Pollock |
When I am in my painting...
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| Jackson Pollock |
I have no fear of making...
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| Jackson Pollock |
Abstract painting is abstract. It...
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| Jackson Pollock |
The painting has a life of...
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| Jackson Pollock |
I'm very representational some of...
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| Jackson Pollock |
I don't work from drawings. I...
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| Jackson Pollock |
Abstract painting is abstract. It...
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| Jackson Pollock |
Painting is self-discovery. Every...
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| Jackson Pollock |
He drove his kind of realism...
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| Jackson Pollock |
When I'm painting, I'm not...
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| Franka Potente |
I never consciously said, 'I...
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| Anthony Quinn |
I liked sculpting better than...
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| Anthony Quinn |
I studied all about Gauguin...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
Very quickly a painting is...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
There was a whole language...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
Pollock also... wanted one to...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
I'm not so facile that I...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
I think a painting is more...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
But I was in awe of...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
And I think a painting has...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
And also the new excitement...
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| Robert Rauschenberg |
And all of this, all these...
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| Ad Reinhardt |
I taught a lot of art...
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| Ad Reinhardt |
If some student came up and...
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| Bridget Riley |
Painting is, I think, inevitably...
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| J. M. Roberts |
Overall, the anarchy was the...
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| Theodore Robinson |
Painting directly from nature is...
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| Norman Rockwell |
I didn't know what to expect...
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| Norman Rockwell |
The secret to so many artists...
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| Norman Rockwell |
It wouldn't be right for me...
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| Norman Rockwell |
The '20s ended in an era...
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| Andy Rooney |
I don't like food that's too...
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| Billy Rose |
Never invest in anything that...
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| Mark Rothko |
There is no such thing as...
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| Georges Rouault |
For me, painting is a way...
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| John Ruskin |
I have not written in vain...
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| Robert Ryan |
I sometimes use a lot of...
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| John Singer Sargent |
A portrait is a painting with...
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| Arnold Schoenberg |
I never was very capable of...
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| Paul Scofield |
A painting means as much to...
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| William Scott |
On occasion I have drawn as...
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| William Scott |
I no longer worry whether a...
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| William Scott |
Every painting I do is related...
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| Peter Shaffer |
If London is a watercolor, New...
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| George Bernard Shaw |
Which painting in the National...
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| Michelle Shocked |
I think people have to choose...
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| Herbert Simon |
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and...
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| Alfred Sisley |
The animation of the canvas is...
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| John French Sloan |
Every good picture leaves the...
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| Robert Smithson |
Painting, sculpture and architecture are...
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| Wole Soyinka |
My horizon on humanity is...
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| Konstantin Stanislavisky |
We have as many planes of...
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| Frank Stella |
But, after all, the aim of...
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| Frank Stella |
One learns about painting by...
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| Frank Stella |
When I'm painting the picture...
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| Frank Stella |
I was worried in the '80s...
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| Frank Stella |
A sculpture is just a painting...
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| Howard Stern |
I'm sickened by all religions...
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| Tom Stoppard |
It is not hard to understand...
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Where painting is weakest, namely...
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| Patricia Sun |
When we don't have information...
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| Yves Tanguy |
The painting develops before my...
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| Twyla Tharp |
I started formal piano training...
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| Mike Thompson |
I don't have much of a...
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| Mike Thompson |
I think it is an inborn...
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| Mark Tobey |
I believe that painting should...
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| Mao Tse-Tung |
A revolution is not a dinner...
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| Maurice de Vlaminck |
Good painting is like good...
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| Maurice de Vlaminck |
When I get my hands on...
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| Voltaire |
The little may contrast with...
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| Diane Wakoski |
American poetry, like American painting...
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| Lila Acheson Wallace |
A painting is like a man...
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| Chris Ware |
No one blames themselves if...
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| Andy Warhol |
I'd asked around 10 or 15...
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| Edward Weston |
Photography suits the temper of...
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| Kim Weston |
I tried painting for a short...
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| William Wiley |
I'm just a landscape painter...
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| William Wiley |
I've been attracted to imagery...
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| Pharrell Williams |
So when I'm playing, I'm sort...
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| Kit Williams |
The dog, the rabbit and the...
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| Kit Williams |
In the fairy tale the painting...
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| E. O. Wilson |
Destroying rainforest for economic gain...
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| Marie Windsor |
But painting can be too lonely...
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| Tom Wolfe |
Frankly, these days, without a...
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| Peter Wright |
I have never subscribed to the...
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| Peter Wright |
I felt the need to get...
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| Peter Wright |
Painting is seen as picture...
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| Peter Wright |
I never know what it's going...
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| Andrew Wyeth |
I'm a secretive bastard. I...
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| Andrew Wyeth |
At 18 I began painting...
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| Andrew Wyeth |
I dream a lot. I do...
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| Minoru Yamasaki |
And I like the idea of...
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