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Painting

Peinture

Bachelor's
Language: FrenchStudies in French
Subject area: arts
University website: www.lacambre.be
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.
Painting
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Of Art. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
Painting
Wrought he not well that painted it?
He wrought better that made the painter; and yet he's but a filthy piece of work.
William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act 1, scene 1, line 200. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
Painting
The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, No. 136. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
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