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Usage examples of painters.

A clever machinist and the best scene painters did their best to make the audience believe in magic.

A Report concerning a painting academy where nude studies were made, from models of both sexes, while scholars only twelve or thirteen years of age were admitted, and where dilettantes who were neither painters nor designers, attended the sessions.

Mind you, Huygens has no trouble picking out the better of the two painters, no trouble at all.

I now find myself in, that on a number of occasions in the past forty years, I have been described by men who love art as one of the greatest painters of all, and it is not for me to disagree with such experts.

It is something so many painters forget, that a painting needs to be painted according to where it is hung, the height and the distance from the observer.

Fashion may have switched to sillier, smoother painters but who gives a standing fuck for fashion?

I realized I was on the way to being the best painter in the world, I knew from that moment on that I should not do what everyone else said, I should not take the well-worn path to Italy where all the painters go to learn from the supposed glories hanging on Italian walls.

I thought there must be several other painters in York to allow him to maintain such a stock.

It is the chain of royal patronage that Peter Paul Rubens deservedly had and that many lesser painters of the time received from their royal sponsors but Rembrandt never achieved it.

The second day got the picture to that point where bad painters stop and good painters start.

There are perhaps two, three, four painters who amount to more and have more to offer than I.

We have so many good painters, sensitive, discriminating men who paint the world as an intelligent, discriminating, unassuming old gentleman sees it.

I tremble to think of the crowd of poets and painters who will make a fortune out of her enthusiasm.

In the portrait the breast was bare, and as I was remarking that painters did those parts as best they could, the impudent wench seized the opportunity to shew me that the miniature was faithful to nature.

The carpenters, blacksmiths, and painters worked hard from morning to night, and in less than three weeks the place was ready.