I Will Not Paint Those Paintings

I used to see paintings in my mind's eyes
I used to dream scenes amazing paintings
I used to dream paintings in sleep sight
paintings in details I had never seen before

paintings which stopped heart in sight shock
I knew canvases were awkward hard to carry
to travel with poems is only paper and pen
paint your paintings inspiring I write poems

I will not soul carry paint those paintings

poem by Terence George Craddock
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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

quote by Albert Camus
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Painting The Walls

painting the walls,
rolling over handprints,
cobwebs, and smoke stains....

over splashes of color,
over peels of time.
painting over the sounds

of voices whispering, laughing....
painting over tears hidden
from the world, from each other.

painting over running, and working,
working all day and half the night.
painting over children, and dreams,

folded like old clothes, and put away.
painting over notes from God,
that were often barely noticed...

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poem by Eric Cockrell
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Critics see music and hear painting.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Why Is Repin Painting Monet?

why is repin
painting monet
why is not repin
painting repin
or why is not monet
painting monet
or they're just
making a team
in this day
very sunny day
in the south
south of beauty
oh beauty
beauty named france
france of that field
the sunflower field
oh making
making for a painting
a painting for price
a price for bread

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poem by Ahmed Khaled
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

classic quote by Pablo Picasso
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

quote by Balthus
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Modesty is high in view.

A painting free of cost;
A painting with a tag;
A painting not for sale;
The third soars high in view.
24.10.2012

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

classic quote by Gustav Klimt
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Robert Langdon: I'm trapped in a Salvador Dali painting.

line from The DaVinci Code, script by Dan Brown (2003)
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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

quote by Robert Indiana
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Orhan Pamuk in My Name is Red
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

quote by Robert Rauschenberg
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Orhan Pamuk in My Name is Red (1998)
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

quote by Plutarch
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I love painting.

quote by Heidi Klum
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I hate painting.

quote by Howard Hodgkin
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To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

classic quote by Arthur Rubinstein
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I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

quote by Jasper Johns
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

classic quote by Edgar Degas
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