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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Eloquence is a painting of thought.”
Blaise Pascal

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Pablo Picasso

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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
Pablo Picasso

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

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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
Pablo Picasso

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Pablo Picasso

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”
Jean de La Bruyere

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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”
Edvard Munch

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