“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.” BitsConsciousnessPaintingHabitPureCompositionShameless Author:Kazimir Malevich
“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.” MenSelfDesireConsciousnessHonestPaintingEgoDegreesShadowPaintDramaticArtificialIntroducingPortraitsHighlightsSelf ConsciousnessSelf Portrait Author:W. H. Auden
“My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.” WorldConsciousnessPaintingSurvivalInvisibleGrandfatherTransResearchersDentistChannelingOntarioGreat Grandfather Author:Dan Aykroyd
“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
“Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.” ConsciousnessPaintingMetaphor Author:Nigel Cooke
“There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.” IfsLooksKindStillsDifferentLightConsciousnessPaintingDifferent ThingsDifferent KindsImpressionists Author:Jean-Luc Godard