“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?” SpiritualArtistForceHeavenWalksVisionDivineGeniusConsciousEarsPaintChosenPainterVanityLandscapeUnconsciousUrgesAngleReal BeautyEmulation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.” MeanEndsSidesEffectsPaintingPaperConsciousEmbraceMerePaintStriveTechniqueExpressiveMeans To An EndMannerisms Author:Walter J. Phillips
“You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.” IfsUnderstandingGrowthRealizingLibertyTreeMovementWasteConsciousPaintUnnecessaryLiving Things Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.” WantKindLittlesSelfSecretWeekConsciousCrisisStrategyPaintFedsCantSelf ConsciousFed Up Author:Gerhard Richter
“Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.” ArtSoulPlayUseArtistChoicesAcceptingAudienceShareColorConsciousSeriesNotesPaintRejectsWorks Of ArtSubstitutes Author:Leonard Pitts
“I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.” ThinkingWorldIdeasReasonPaintingConsciousPaintPainterNo Idea Author:Jasper Johns
“I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way to avoid that, unless it is pure decoration. But even pure decoration has also some value because you can read pure decoration as a way to ignore the reality that is around us, saying, "Well, I'm not interested. I just like to paint this wall blue.” ThinkingArtRealityPoliticalValuesWallConsciousArt IsPaintNot InterestedDecoration Author:Alfredo Jaar