His hero Millet had admonished. Auguste Renoir had told him. Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was you could see.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.
Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.
The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader's, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and fi...
Glory is reserved for the twisted minds.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.