As Michelangelo says: "Good painting is noble and devout in itself, for among the wise nothing tends more to elevate the soul or to raise it toward devotion than the difficulty of that perfection which approaches God and becomes one with him.
It should contain no expression of religion or worship, for "good painting is religious and devout in itself.
Good painting is but a copy of this perfection, a shadow of his pencil, a music, a melody, and only a very keen intelligence can feel the difficulty of it.
I have always maintained that there is nothing that the average Englishman--the reader of the Daily Telegraph--dislikes so much as good painting.
Manet was born a painter as absolutely as any man that ever lived, so absolutely that a very high and lucid intelligence never for a moment came between him and the desire to put anything into his picture except good painting.
To understand Manet's genius, the nineteenth century would have required ten years more than usual, for in Manet there is nothing but good painting, and there is nothing that the nineteenth century dislikes as much as good painting.
It is obvious that one cannot become a good painter without the ability to know what is good painting, and to prefer it to bad painting.
But you constantly get rid of the too much mixed color on your palette with it, and this is essential to good painting.
But for all I have just said, there is an acknowledged basis of what is good painting.
But, whatever the means used may be, the certainty and directness of them imply absolute grasp of the whole subject, and without this grasp there is no good painting.
Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good painting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
