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Births

• 1906 - Bruce Bennett
• 1882 - Clarence Stein
• 1941 - Vaclav Klaus
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• 1867 - Henry Dodge
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• It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.

  Berkeley Breathed

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• I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

  Barnett Newman

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• I did painting before I did photography.

  David Bailey

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• But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

  Tony Curtis

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• Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

  Tony Curtis

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• Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

  Georges Braque

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• I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

  Sydney Pollack

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• Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

  Steven Pinker

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• I’ve been trying to pick up painting but it’s hard.

  George Eads

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• Painting and writing are solitary arts.

  Conrad Hall

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• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father’s generation.

  Georg Baselitz

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  I always feel attacked when I’m asked about my painting.

   

  Georg Baselitz

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• Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

  Theodore Robinson

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• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  Edgar Degas

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• There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you’ve got it, you’ve got it. When you haven’t, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

  Edouard Manet

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• Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

  Edvard Munch

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• I don’t have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

  Charles Michael Thompson

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• Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

  Robert Smithson

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• Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again become great.

  Edward Hopper

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• Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

  Edward Hopper

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