“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?” IfsLongArtStuffForgetCompanySuccessfulRecordsFourPaintingEqualLawyerForget ItGalleryRecord CompaniesPatronLeonardoPublicists Author:Debbie Harry
“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.” ShouldArtHardWholeFormForceMistakeTakenFourCenturyObjectsPaintingPerspectiveTraditionCreditDisappearRenaissanceImposingBeholderGhastlyRedressCezanne Author:Georges Braque
“Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.” ArtEyeDifficultFourPaintingArt IsDifficultyCornersBackgroundsDifficult Things Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated
“I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.” TwoKidsFourPaintingDadOfficeGardenIncludingFishesPostsShopsUnclesCentreChipsRetiredOwn BusinessDecoratingPost OfficeFish And ChipsLancashire Author:Rick Astley
“I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.” FirstsInterestDealsFourPaintingDecidedPainter Author:John Dyer