“To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.” IdeasArtistMemoriesPaintOilBreathingPushingBrushesMixingDrippingBlurry Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter.” SaidMatterFacesCertainMemoriesPaintingMaterialsFaultsPaintSpeedResistanceInterpretationCaptureGesturesBrushesMindlessInsistence Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.” KnowsLooksOilPainterBrushesMixturesMethodologyPalette Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
