But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
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l. 465.James Thomson
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Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art.Alfred (Lord) Tennyson
I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.
George Frederick Watts
All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination. It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
Saul Bellow
Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast,
And those who paint them truest praise them most.Joseph Addison
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.
Jasper Johns
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