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“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.”

Feels May I Can Beautiful Water Study Greater Summer Seasons Winter Studios Spread Painter Rejoice Recalls Small Things Drop Of Water Firmament

Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch

“A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.”

Children Made Beautiful Night Figures Ugly Painter

Book:Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

Source: Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

“To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.”

Art Beautiful Lines Art Is Painter Landscape Department Select Admirable

Author:J. M. W. Turner

“In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.”

Beautiful Opinion Models Aspect Strive Debt Painter Finest Giotto

Book:Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists

Source: Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists

“As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.”

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Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

Life Inspirational Art Eye Beautiful Order Vision Creative Seeing Painter Carpe Diem

Author:Paul Gauguin

“All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime.”

Years Beautiful Morning Blood Lifetime Paint Studios Oil Painter Substance Worthwhile Every Morning Infuriating

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.”

People Beautiful Spirit Purpose Sound Healing Painter Chinese Melody Resonance Snob

Author:Alan Hovhaness

“Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.”

“The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.”

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Author:G. H. Hardy

“As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.”

Giving May Beautiful Wish Cases Figures Mark Painter Spoil

Author:Plutarch

“He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.”

Mind Heart Beautiful Sides Beauty Lovers Goodness Painter Lifts Bad Friend

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.”