“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.” WantKindSaidTodayActorsSoundStupidPaintingConsciousPainterPainting A Picture Author:Franka Potente
“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
“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.” LyingArtistPowerEmotionalPaintingIntellectualConsciousResponseAssociationSubconsciousEmotional Response Author:Thomas S. Buechner
“Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.” PeopleWritingLooksLittlesStillsEnoughHandsSeemsPassionBitsParticularPaintingLittle BitClothesConsciousWealthyHomelessPlaces To LiveWriting MusicSecond HandPortlandSecond Hand Clothes Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.” IfsRealityArtistProcessNaturalAbilityCreativityCreativePossibilityPaintingSucceedElementsCreatingConsciousIndependentCreative ProcessTransformingHintsNatural Phenomena Author:Frantisek Kupka
“One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.” ThinkingSelfMatterSpiritualPassionLiteratureQualityPaintingAdventureIntellectualConsciousDeterminationBraveNobleOrganizedSelf ConsciousCorrectnessRespectabilityAmerican LiteratureEarnestnessInsipidUninspiringEnglish Music Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it is in this respect like a painting which takes a long time where you are very aware of what you are doing in the process. Exposure is only the final act of making the image as a photograph.” LongProcessPaintingLong TimeConsciousFinalsPhotographWhere You AreExposureRapidsSnapshots Author:Thomas Struth
“I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.” ThinkingFeelsSelfConsciousnessPaintingConsciousSelf Conscious Author:Julian Schnabel
“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 suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley