“Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.” ArtChancePaintingFineArt IsAccidentsSensitiveArbitrary Book:Sommer: Words Source: Sommer: Words
“The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.” ArtistFatherChanceWifeMinesPaintingHusbandStrangerUsualConfessionAcquaintance Author:Ilya Kabakov
“There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.” ChanceStudyPaintingFineExcitingDrawingTexture Author:John French Sloan
“Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.” MeanArtistChancePainting Author:Teddy Thompson
“Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.” ThinkingWellsLongSometimesBigsChanceToo MuchOne ThingColorPaintingPaintWideLandscapeBroadsCanvasPencils Author:Joni Eareckson Tada
“A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.” WantIdeasRealUseWantedYoungChanceSawsPaintingHappeningsRoseWoodsLondonPainterInsects Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.” KnowsMenShouldHas BeensMadeChancePaintingShould HaveVanityShould Have BeenRobbers Author:Francis Bacon
“Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.” WayDifferentChanceSpacePaintingDifferent WaysStreamsLiteral Author:Cynthia Daignault