“The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.” MayHas BeensArtSaidMightTodayThreeLanguageTermModernPossibilityLimitsLogicStudiosIntuitionPainterCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningDimensionsScholarFourthPlasticGrammarProposeMeasurementGeometryPredecessorsOntologyNew PossibilitiesSpatialEuclidThree Dimensions Author:Guillaume Apollinaire
“If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.” IfsHas BeensOrderSupportPainterCraftsDesignerPottery Author:Eva Zeisel
“Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.” Has BeensArtUsedBornModernSourceArt IsPhotographerPainterModernismCopyrightModern ArtUpheaval Book:EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston Source: EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston
“We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.” Has BeensArtIdeasArtistFreedomPersonalityArt IsInstinctPassionatePainterWorks Of ArtSensationsRestraintCaricaturesCopying Author:Maurice Denis
“I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.” ThinkingYearsKindHas BeensLastsHonestyPaintingProudTwentiesPaintPainterBehave Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.” YearsHas BeensStatesFactsTodayLastsFivePaintingPainterPrizeTurnerCurator Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.” YearsHas BeensArtProblemAbleLastsTermPainterFiftyCubism Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.” LongHas BeensStoriesSocialIssuesLong TimeDestructionPainterNovelistsFilmmakerExplorationPlaywrightExamining Author:J. J. Abrams
“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.” WayHas BeensImportantWalksTeachSeeingColorPoetShapesHarmonyWoodsPainterFacultyMuseumsWalk In The Woods Author:Carolyn Kizer