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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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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."
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"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."
"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
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