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“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

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Book:Frida Kahlo

Source: Frida Kahlo

“The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.”

Should Art History Seeing Painting Paint Painter

Author:Paul Klee

“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.”

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Author:Mark Steyn

“There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”

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Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life