"I want to die painting."

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"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

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"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."

Peter Wright, British Celebrity

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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."

William Merritt Chase, American Artist

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"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

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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."

Janet Malcolm, American Writer

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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

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"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

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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."

Edouard Manet, French Artist

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"We live in a rainbow of chaos."

Chaos

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."

Shadow

"Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see."

Observation

"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."

Isolation

"We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature."

Nature

"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."

Age

"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."

Work

"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."

Age

"It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away."

Time

"One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link."

Past