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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
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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."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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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."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."
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"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
Painting
"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."
Art
"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."
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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
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"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."
Art
"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
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