“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.” MindRealStatesBodyMovingGivenPiecesMovementPaintingQuietHorseInstantState Of MindGestures Author:Deborah Butterfield
“Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.” MindBodySpiritNextSubjectsPaintingBecomingConnectionsRelevantCanvasStrokes Author:Ken Gillespie
“Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.” MadeBodyRecordsFrontsMovementPaintingPaintCastsPainterSatDelicateGesturesCanvasPortraitsTense Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.” BodyPaintingItalianMartyrPreludeIntestines Author:Eduard Hanslick
“With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.” DoeArtBodyMovingAliveBloodMovementColorPaintingVarietyWorks Of Art Author:Joseph Raffael
“Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.” PeopleIfsDreamBodyArtistOpportunityImaginePaintingEatingIntroducing Author:Ferran Adria
“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.” WayDoeHelpingBodyBeautifulRememberCitiesPaintingEatingDrawingBest WayFlavorPenetrateBeautiful CityBeautiful Paintings Author:Anais Nin
“Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.” HumansWellsRealStoriesBodyActionFictionPaintingEssenceHuman BodyTrue StoryResemblance Book:The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose