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If you're looking for an arts quote to include in your art journal, or for something to jumpstart a page, look no further than this collection of quotes on painting from artists, art critics, and the like.

"...allow the finished work time to find its rightful place in the artist's heart and mind ... a chance to be understood better by the maker. Then when the time comes for others to judge the work, their reaction (whatever it may be) is less threatening. "
"Black paint can be made of soot and galls, peach stones and vine twigs or even ivory... But one of the more notorious ingredients in the seventeenth century was bone black, which was said by some to be made from human corpses. [But] in fact it was not black [that] was made from dead human beings. It was brown."The color in question was "mommia", or "mummy", a thick, tar-like substance made from Ancient Egyptian mummies that was said to a beautiful, translucent brown. If you're not the squeamish type, you can find out a more more about mummy color here... If you are squeamish, just know it's got nothing to do with a mother color.
-- Victoria Finlay, Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox p112.
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