Painting Quotes

Painting refers to an illustration or artwork done with the use of paint. It commonly describes the action of applying paint to a surface, the same activity as an art form, and to apply paint to, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to to apply in the manner that paint is applied, to cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint, and to create (an image) with paints, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Painting as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include to practise the art of painting pictures, to draw an element in a graphical user interface, to depict or portray, to color one's face by way of beautifying it, and to direct a radar beam toward, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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Photo of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti

(1475-1564)

Photo of Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

(1881-1973)

Photo of Edmond de Goncourt

Edmond de Goncourt

(1822-1896)