"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."

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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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Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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Balthus, French Artist

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Alan Bean, American Astronaut

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"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."

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"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."

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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

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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."

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."

"I found I have to stay painting."

"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."

"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."

"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

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"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."

"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."

"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."