Definition of Painting

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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 am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
Andy Warhol

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

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

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

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

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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