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“All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.”

Greater Fool Paint Drunk Pencils Madmen Drunkenness

Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.”

Culture Fool Paint Painter Curator

Author:Robert Genn

“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.”

Way Want Wanted School Found Stupid Taught Painting Fool Shapes Concern Decided Paint Painter Colour Very Stupid

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.”

Fool Paint Academy Imbeciles Kodak

Book:Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

“I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.”

Want I Can Wanted Stupid Fool Decided Paint Very Stupid

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”

Men Able Wise Fool Sells Paint

Book:The Essential Samuel Butler

Source: The Essential Samuel Butler