Quotations on Painting | Quotations: 11 | Pages: 2
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by Oliver Goldsmith
(November 10, 1728 - April 4, 1774) |
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. |
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by Confucius
(551 BC - 479 BC) |
A picture is a poem without words. |
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by Joseph Addison
(May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719) |
And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. |
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by John Dryden
(August 9, 1631 - May 1, 1700) |
Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
He best can paint them who shall feel them most. |
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by John Ruskin
(February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) |
If it is the love of that which your work represents if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you if, being a figure painter, it is love of human ... |
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by Thomas Carlyle
(December 4, 1795 - February 4, 1881) |
If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer. |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. |
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by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) |
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot en ... |
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by John Ruskin
(February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) |
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. |
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