“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.” MenShouldSaidArtistAmbitionLengthBrushesExceed Author:Robert Breault
“There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.” MayArtBodyArtistSongVoiceResultsVisionMaterialsMastersFineStringsApplicationMasteryBowsCanvasBrushesMarbleFine ArtsArtistryInterfacesChisels Author:Robert Breault
“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.” ThinkingMenTwoLastsArtistTalentPaintingPainterMuseBrushesTrios Author:Robert Breault
“Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.” ArtArtistAbilityPerceptionPaintPerceiveBrushesPalette Author:Dean Mitchell
“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.” MindDoneFactsArtistWhitePaintingPureTraditionRootsEmptyMethodEmbraceStartingFlyingSpotsEmptinessRealisingStrokesBrushesPenetrateSpontaneityApparitions Author:Antoni Tapies
“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.” TryingSchoolFormArtistLosesStudyPerspectiveTraditionAncientDrawingChineseConventionsDecayBrushesTextureFruition Author:John French Sloan
“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 artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.” KnowsUseBodyArtistFightingVoiceImaginationJusticeStruggleTalentCommitmentInjusticeObligationMediumsOppressionObservationArtisticPensActivistBrushesLensesInjustice And OppressionArtistic Talent Author:M. K. Asante
“When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.” WayUseArtistColorPaintingComputerPressurePaintFinalsPainterSensitiveGutsDigitalPensBrushesPixels Author:Donald Lambert
“Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.” ArtistLeftTechnologyCreativeComputerToolsSmellMediumsFlatsStationsBrushesJarsCreative ArtCreative Artists Author:Donald Lambert
“When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If you know less, you're better off as an artist.” IfsKnowsMomentsArtistKnow HowPicksThat MomentBrushesBetter Off Author:Milton Resnick
“Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.” RealityArtistBrushes Author:Sydney Banks