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Painting

«There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through»
«There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.»
«Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.»
Author: Wilhelm Bode | About: Painting | Keywords: painted, Rembrandt
«There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence,»
«The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?»
«Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.»
«Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An»
«The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.»
«They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.»
«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»