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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
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"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."
"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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