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Definition of Painting
Painting

of Paint

The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.

Color laid on; paint.

A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

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Painting Quotations

I want to die painting.
Paul Cezanne

I love painting.
Heidi Klum

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire

Painting Translations

painting in Afrikaans is skildery
painting in Danish is billede
painting in Dutch is schildering, doek, schilderij
painting in French is tableaux, peignant
painting in Italian is pittura
painting in Norwegian is maleri
painting in Portuguese is pintura


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