“People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.” PeopleThinkingArtDifferentMomentsAttitudePaintingApproachPaintMoodCanvasCommercial Art Author:Pierre Alechinsky
“There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.” ArtWholePainLanguageAttitudeQualityStruggleMaterialsConflictFunctionPaintPainter Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.” IfsThinkingMenWayWantKindPersonsI CanPlayFacesCan DoWhiteAnimalAttitudeRolesColorLimitsGreenPaintPurple Author:Grace Jones
“I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.” KindDifferentFeltAttitudePaintingDeservePaintPainterShyDifferent KindsAdopted Author:Black Francis