Nicolae Grigorescu

first of the founders of the Romanian modern painting

An eye is easy to paint; the look is more difficult…

An eye is easy to paint; the look is more difficult…

Nicolae Grigorescu | Translations

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Do what you feel, and as much as you feel.

Do what you feel, and as much as you feel.

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It is feeling that gives colour, not the brush. You can colour with a piece of coal, but all the tubes in the world will not give you the blue of a flax flower if you do not hold it in your heart.

It is feeling that gives colour, not the brush. You can colour with a piece of coal, but all the tubes in the world will not give you the blue of a flax flower if you do not hold it in your heart.

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You must paint as the birds sing: absolutely everything you come across that you like; never beat your brains out in search of a subject when everything around you is wonderful.

You must paint as the birds sing: absolutely everything you come across that you like; never beat your brains out in search of a subject when everything around you is wonderful.

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Even the most faithful icon, if it is made with coldness, if it lacks air, space and something from the intimate vibration of the soul through which it has passed, is no more than a coloured photograph.

Even the most faithful icon, if it is made with coldness, if it lacks air, space and something from the intimate vibration of the soul through which it has passed, is no more than a coloured photograph.

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  • Date of birth: 15 May 1838
  • Date of death: 21 July 1907

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