“Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.” ShouldStatesPaintingBattleWeaponsPreparedPreparationBe PreparedBrushesGearsReadiness Author:Richard Schmid
“All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of this in a deep depression and under great pressure. My paintings are battles, if you will.” WarPastPaintingBattlePainter Author:Georg Baselitz
“If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.” PeopleIfsKidsJesusSeaDyingPaintingHonorBattleGloryCrossesCancerIllnessHopefullyNecksSomedayYellowPlagueMartyrFeverParadesBitingDead PeopleSmallpoxPeople DyingYellow Fever Author:John Green