"A painting that is well composed is half finished."

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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."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Painting,

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Painting, Art, Criticism, Humor

"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."

Yves Tanguy, French Artist

Painting, Eyes, Liberty, Reason

"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Painting, Reputation

"Every song is like a painting."

Dick Dale, American Musician

Painting, Song

"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

Robert Delaunay, French Artist

Painting, Paris, Present, Research

"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

Painting,

"If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study."

Ad Reinhardt, American Artist

Painting, Study, Want

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

Painting, Personality

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"Art will never be able to exist without nature."

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"You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form."

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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."

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."

"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

"Every song is like a painting."

"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."

"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

"If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study."

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."

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"Art will never be able to exist without nature."

"You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form."

"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."

"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."

"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."

"It is still color, it is not yet light."

"Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole."

"A painting that is well composed is half finished."