{"topic":"painting","quotes":[{"quote":"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.","author":"Ambrose Bierce"},{"quote":"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.","author":"Edmond de Goncourt"},{"quote":"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.","author":"George Tooker"},{"quote":"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.","author":"Henry Ward Beecher"},{"quote":"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.","author":"Jackson Pollock"},{"quote":"It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.","author":"Jeff Melvoin"},{"quote":"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.","author":"John Singer Sargent"},{"quote":"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ","author":"Michelangelo Buonarroti"},{"quote":"I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.","author":"Miguel de Cervantes"},{"quote":"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.","author":"Pablo Picasso"},{"quote":"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.","author":"Pablo Picasso"},{"quote":"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.","author":"Simonides"},{"quote":"Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.","author":"William Baziotes"}]}