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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: painting, self-doubt
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
    tags: art, dreams, inspirational, nightmares, painting
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: painting
    411 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: diary, painting
    361 likes

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    Edward Hopper
    “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
    ― Edward Hopper
    tags: inadequacy-of-words
    307 likes

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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    286 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, door, painting, picture, stepping-stone
    127 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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    Amit Kalantri
    “A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
    ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
    tags: amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, business, business-quotes, corporate, corporate-world, hobby, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, meeting, meetings, metaphysics, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, objective, objectivism, objectivity, paint, painters, painting, philosophical, philosophy, photographer, photographs, photography, photography-quotes, picture, pictures, practical, practicality, practice, pragmatic, pragmatism, wallpaper, wisdom, wisdom-quotes, works
    146 likes

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    Robert McKee
    “A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”
    ― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
    tags: art, dance, music, painting, story
    102 likes

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    Banksy
    “Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: paint, painting
    78 likes

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    Brian Froud
    “I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.”
    ― Brian Froud
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, beauty, colours, oscar-wilde, painting, the-picture-of-dorian-gray
    145 likes

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    Norman Rockwell
    “The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.”
    ― Norman Rockwell
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    Robert Henri
    “All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.”
    ― Robert Henri
    tags: art, painting
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    Katja Michael
    “No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.”
    ― Katja Michael
    tags: capture, light, painting, photography, shooting
    42 likes

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    Louis L'Amour
    “The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
    tags: art, painting, people, sculpture, understanding, writing
    29 likes

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    Henri Matisse
    “You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.”
    ― Henri Matisse
    tags: art, art-theory, creativity, design, emotion, matisse, painting, sculpture, self-expression, subject
    84 likes

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    O. Henry
    “I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.”
    ― O. Henry, The Complete Works of O. Henry
    tags: art, arts, bullets, music, paint, painting, soft-bullet
    72 likes

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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightly-colored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains and wild accents; God is the one with the paintbrush who stands beside my canvass filling all the intricate and amazing details in between the whirlpools and the streaks! We're happy together!”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: canvass-of-life, god, inspirational-god, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, living-life, painting, relationship-with-god
    54 likes

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    “There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.”
    ― Piper Payne
    tags: art, beauty, heartbreak, humanity, life, love, new-adult, painting, painting-a-canvas, starting-over
    76 likes

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    Rembrandt van Rijn
    “Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.”
    ― Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn
    tags: art, atmosphere, painting
    54 likes

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    Edgar Degas
    “A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people”
    ― Edgar Degas
    tags: painting
    55 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
    tags: composition, craft, creative-process, painting, wholeness, writing
    93 likes

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    Bob Ross
    “All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.”
    ― Bob Ross
    tags: painting
    88 likes

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    Bauvard
    “I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.”
    ― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
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    Hiroko Sakai
    “When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects.

    I think the life is the same.”
    ― Hiroko Sakai
    tags: art, artist, color, life, painting
    15 likes

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    Camille Pissarro
    “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
    ― Camille Pissarro
    tags: art, beauty, painting
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  • #30
    “If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.”
    ― Grandma Moses
    tags: art, chickens, painting
    9 likes



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