| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic | | Henry Louis Mencken | | | Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. | | Vincent van Gogh | | | Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. | | Pablo Picasso | | | The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs | | Vincent van Gogh | | | The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? | | Pablo Picasso | | | They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. | | Pablo Picasso | | | Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. | | Pablo Picasso | | | Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist | | Edgar Allan Poe | | | When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. | | Pablo Picasso | | | Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? | | Pablo Picasso | | | | | | | | | |
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