top of page
Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce

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

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

More 

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

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

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I want to die painting."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

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

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Painting is a hobby for me."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Writing and Painting are the same for me."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."

Art

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

Religion

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

Civilization

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"That sovereign of insufferables."

Judgment

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour."

Religion

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Art

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

Money

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."

Business

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

Humor

Quote_1.png
Ambrose Bierce
"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

Humor

bottom of page