Best painting & natural Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.”

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Book:The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

“He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.”

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Author:Albrecht Durer

“Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.”

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Book:Lee Krasner

Source: Lee Krasner

“In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.”

Form Natural Painting Scene Harmony Unity Sake Painter Landscape Colour Exaggerated Prevailing

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up, to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I'd like to put it together and express it in my paintings. This is the way I want to dedicate my work.”

World Way Want Wells I Can Earth Together Natural Rich Painting Planets Handsome Natural World Planet Earth

Author:Robert Bateman

“Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is like seeing a landscape or, better, a richly realized painting of a landscape dotted with figures. But that would leave out their music, which would be a loss. This is a wise and graceful book by a well-traveled woman who knows how to confront deep feeling and frame it to make it all the more intense.”

“Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.”

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Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.”

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Author:David Hume

“Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.”

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Book:A guide to better photography

Source: A guide to better photography

“If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.”

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Author:Peter Doig

“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.”

“He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.”

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Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

“Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels like a natural moment for painting to look out, to reclaim that directive of picturing America.”

Feels Looks Moments America Natural Identity Painting Photography Inward

Author:Cynthia Daignault

“When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.”

Writing Looks Stories Moving Natural Painting Progression

Author:Janet Evanovich

“Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.”

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Author:Roger Housden

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