“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.” HumansLooksPersonsStillsCharacterArtistOrderIndividualMemoriesSimpleBehindsEffectsPaintingDependsResponseWho We AreSimple Truths Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting
“Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.” ArtistMemoriesPathJourneyGuides Author:Nick Bantock
“A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.” WritingUseArtistMemoriesPoetBrilliantProseSongwritersUsing Me Author:Paul McCartney
“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
“Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.” PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveArtWholeArtistI BelieveMemoriesCivilizationFunctionI Believe InBurned Author:Yoko Ono
“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.” ArtistFallActorsHoursMemoriesSilenceDarknessStageProduceDivinePoetMusicianEvidenceTheaterMissionsPainterCurtainsSculptors Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman