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“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”

Men Wells Faces Artist He Man Painting One Day Models Paint Features Canvas Portraits Portraiture

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.”

Art Light Truth Perfect Painting Truth Is One Day Faithful Sunshine Afternoon Marvelous Convincing Gallery Rainy Another Day Light Within Replica

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.”

Giving Children Wanted Term Interest Wife Painting One Day Giving Up Paint Very Good My Wife Canvas Advise Renoir

Author:Claude Monet

“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!”

Years Wells Results Progress Changed Painting One Day Ten Yellow Palette

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.”

Remember Next Painting One Day Bunch Bowls Imitation Next Day Grapes Juan

Book:My life in sculpture

Source: My life in sculpture

“A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.”

Painting One Day Tests

Author:Ian Chappell

“For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.”

Years Home Left Painting One Day Husband Moved Credit Deception California Hawaii

Author:Margaret Keane

“Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.”

Source: Otherwise: new and selected poems

“The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.”

Thinking Men Trying I Can Shows Next Fun Clear Doors Tree He Man Painting One Day Lows Clean Paint Woods Colour Brown Burned Dreary Just For Fun

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.”

Art Artist Painting Wall One Day Museums

Author:Kelly Miller

“I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.”

Knows Morning Painting One Day Clouds Shooting Damn Not Sure Bizarre Vans Crow

Author:Mick Farren