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Throughout the ages, man has conquered tragedy with his ability to create works of art.

Will Barnet

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Barnet, Will. "Interview with Mary Anne Guitar." 22 Famous Painters and Illustrators Tell How They Work. David McKay, 1964, p. 11.

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Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. Italian Manuscripts, Bibliotheque Nationale. 1519, MS 2038, Bib. Nat. 13 r.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least.

Leonardo da Vinci

Quoted in Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari

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Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects]. Vol 2, Florence: Giunti, 1568.

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Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists, translated by George Bull. Vol. 1, Penguin Classics, 1988.

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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Da Vinci, Leonard. Tratto della pittura [A Treatise on Painting]. Raffaelo du Fresne, 1651.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. A Treatise on Painting, translated by John Francis Rigaud. Dover Publications, 2005.

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This benign nature so provides that over all the world you find something to imitate.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.

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Painting and sculpture, hard work and fair dealing have been my ruin and things go continually from bad to worse. It would have been better had I been put to making matches in my youth than to be in such a fret!

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo. Letter to Luigi del Riccio. Oct./Nov. 1542.

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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. 18 Mar. 1883.

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

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I don't think you can really put a monetary value on a painting.

Jacob Lawrence

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Lawrence, Jacob. Interviewed by Carroll Greene. 26 Oct. 1968, New York City, NY, USA.

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The best pictures, and from a technical point of view, the most complete, seen from nearby, are but patches of color next to each other, and only make and effect at a certain distance.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Nov. 1885.

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Eugène Delacroix

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Delacroix, Eugène. Journal entry. 14 March 1858.

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Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

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The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that.

Pablo Picasso

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Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso." Interviewed by Alexander Liberman. Vogue, 1 Nov. 1956.

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The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained.

Georges Braque

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Braque, George. Interviewed by John Richardson. New York Graphic Society, 1957.

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

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Picasso, Pablo. "Conversation avec Picasso." Interviewed by Christian Zervos. Cahiers d'Art, 1935.

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There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.

Jing Hao

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Ching Hao. Pi-fa-chi [Notes on Brushwork]. c. 925.

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Ching Hao. Ching Hao's Pi-fa-chi: A Note on the Art of Brush, translated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Artebus Asiae Publishers, 1974.

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A good collaboration produces universal thinking.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in Rauschenberg, by Barbara Rose. Vintage Books/Elizabeth Avedon Editions, 1987, p. 85.

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I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

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Freud, Lucian. Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere. Interviewed by Michael Kimmelman. Random House, 1998, p. 109.

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Great art picks up where nature ends.

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Chagall, Marc. "Painting: Midsummer Night's Dreamer." Time Magazine, 30 Jul. 1965.

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I want anyone tired, worn down, driven to the limits of endurance, to find calm and repose in my painting.

Henri Matisse

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in "Henri Matisse." Les Cahiers d'aujourd'hui, written by Marcel Sembat. Paris: George Besson, 1913, no. 4.

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in Matisse the Master, written by Hilary Spurling. Vol. 2, Penguin Classics, 2006.

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A hint-don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! Study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God-to create like our Divine Master.