— John Ruskin, livro The Stones of Venice
Volume II, chapter IV, section 103.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
„It is an old remark, that as men are, such they paint their gods“
— James Anthony Froude, livro The Nemesis of Faith
Fragments of Markham's notes
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Contexto: It is an old remark, that as men are, such they paint their gods; and as in themselves the passionate, or demonic nature, long preponderated, so the gods they worshipped were demons like themselves, jealous, capricious, exacting, revengeful, the figures which fill the old mythologies, and appear partly in the Old Testament. They feared them as they feared the powerful of their own race, and sought to propitiate them by similar offerings and services.
Go on, and now we find ourselves on a third stage; but now fast rising into a clearing atmosphere. The absolute worth of goodness is seen as distinct from power; such beings as these demon gods could not he the highest beings. Good and evil could not coexist in one Supreme; absolutely different in nature, they could not have a common origin; the moral world is bipolar, and we have dualism, the two principles, coeternal, coequal.
By and by, again, the horizon widens. The ultimate identity of might and right glimmers out feebly in the Zenda Vesta as the stars come out above the mountains when we climb out of the mist of the valleys. The evil spirit is no longer the absolute independent Ahriman; but Ahriman and Ormuzd are but each a dependent spirit; and an awful formless, boundless figure, the eternal, the illimitable, looms out from the abyss behind them, presently to degrade still farther the falling Ahriman into a mere permitted Satan, finally to be destroyed.
James Anthony Froude8
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„Zaandam is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time.“
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
Quote of 1871, in Monet's letter to Camille Pissarro, 2 June 1871; as cited in Van Gogh Museum Journal 2001 http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_van012200101_01/_van012200101_01_0012.php Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 2001. p. 140
1870 - 1890
— Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
— Ad Reinhardt American painter 1913 - 1967
1956 - 1967
Fonte: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 151
— Ray Comfort New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949
Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution (2009)
— Pearl S. Buck American writer 1892 - 1973
As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine T Partnow, p. 226. "When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place" has sometimes been quoted as her original statement, though she states that she herself is quoting an abbot.
„Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent.“
— Lillian Hellman, livro Pentimento
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits (1973), Introduction
Contexto: Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. That is all I mean about the people in this book. The paint has aged and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.
„Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.“
— George Chapman, All Fools
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
„People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.“
— Ogden Nash American poet 1902 - 1971
"Old Men"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Contexto: People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
— Camille Pissarro French painter 1830 - 1903
As quoted in Cezanne his Life and Art, Jack Linssey, – Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, London, 1969, p. 154-55
Pissarro 'guided' the wild Cézanne for a few years in painting landscape; for a decade or so in the mid-19th century they often worked side by side and influenced each other
1870's
„Curse God, and die. To George it seemed like remarkably sage and relevant advice.“
— James K. Morrow (1947-) science fiction author 1947
Fonte: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 6, “In Which a Sea Captain, a General, a Therapist, and a Man of God Enter the Tale” (p. 61)
— Elaine de Kooning American painter 1918 - 1989
In the exhibition's catalog book 'Elaine de Kooning Portraits' - Brandon Fortune quotes Elaine de Kooning, telling scholar Ann Gibson in 1987; - - read more http://newmexicomercury.com/blog/comments/elaine_de_kooning_paints_a_portrait#sthash.LLVWii3U.dpuf
1972 - 1989
„Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.“
— Rembrandt van rijn Dutch 17th century painter and etcher 1606 - 1669
As quoted in Rembrandt Drawings (1975) by Paul Némo, as translated by David Macrae
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„Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.“
— Augustus founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire -63 - 14 a.C.
„Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.“
— Bob Ross American painter, art instructor, and television host 1942 - 1995
Ken Tucker (2006) Kissing Bill O'Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy: 100 Things to Love and Hate about TV, Macmillan: ISBN 0312330588, p. 155.
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„A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.“
— Rembrandt van rijn Dutch 17th century painter and etcher 1606 - 1669
Statement attributed to Rembrandt in early biographies, as quoted in The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France (2003) by Alison MacQueen
This quote is not to find in the source, Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France, 2003,p. 287 https://books.google.nl/books?id=N0dVqAsR5k0C&pg=PA292&lpg=PA292&dq=The+Rise+of+the+Cult+of+Rembrandt:+Reinventing+an+Old+Master+in+Nineteenth-century+France&source=bl&ots=SgL2TN2Xct&sig=ZJuOkH35vmifBkzcu5ASLdLyhTI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx17OkrpfVAhWKnBoKHQlxA0oQ6AEIVzAJ#v=onepage&q=The%20Rise%20of%20the%20Cult%20of%20Rembrandt%3A%20Reinventing%20an%20Old%20Master%20in%20Nineteenth-century%20France&f=false/The
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