“The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wanted to make the camera obsolete... because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.” ArtMadeWantedUsedReadingFoundDealsEffortCenturyPaintingCostPhotographyModelsArgumentCamerasFavors20th CenturyAbstractionDiscomfortObsoleteRealistFees Author:Philip Pearlstein
“I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.” PeopleYearsLooksDealsModelsEight Author:Beau Garrett
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.” WorldNeedsMadeStillsPoliticalDealsCenturyPaintingIntellectualModelsObjectivesNeverthelessRejectedAffirmationTransformingDissentNineteenth CenturyTransforming The WorldPainting And Poetry Book:The Shock of the New Source: The Shock of the New
“Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.” WayNeedsEnoughProblemGoalAnswersDealsAttentionCreativityCreativeModelsExcitingRemoveKeep GoingGood Life Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi