“There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.” MenShouldHumansDoeInspirationBeautifulNatureHuman BeingsPaintingModelsAppreciated Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.” HumansDoeArtFormUsedTermHuman BeingsDealsExistenceDesignColorPaintingArt IsWeaknessConcernIntellectInventionRealmsAbstractSubstitutesConceptionContemptArrangementsImaginativeInner LifeProvincesPristineAbstract PaintingTerm Life Author:Edward Hopper
“Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.” HumansLittlesRealMomentsHelpingBitsHuman BeingsPaintingPoetSpeechLittle BitExtremesReal LifeRetreatPain In Life Author:Francesco Clemente
“There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.” HumansPlayFormLiteratureHuman BeingsVirtuePaintingWindow Book:Mainly on the Air Source: Mainly on the Air
“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.” TryingHumansTwoIdeasCoursesHuman BeingsImpossiblePaintingPlanetsTasksComplexesPaintSurfaceAbsurdOrganismsPortraitsPortraiture Author:David Cobley
“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?” IfsShouldHumansDoeRealSelfDifficultTermHuman BeingsPiecesMysteryPaintingIntellectualOrdinaryDifficultyEncountersProseAddressesDescriptionInner SelfSimplificationDemeaningOrdinary Days Author:Geoffrey Hill
“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBelieveHumansLooksUsedLyingImaginationHuman BeingsImagineSeaChangedPaintingSceneProjectsPhotographyCamerasPhotographerMediumsLandscapeViewersMy ImaginationBelievableNever LiePhotography Love Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.” PeopleHumansImportantHuman BeingsCasesPaintingOriginalsEncountersCopiesImitation Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.” IfsWritingHumansImportantFilmSexHuman BeingsOur LivesPaintingExpressionReturnEternalSingingCelebrateArtisticThemeArtistic ExpressionSex And DeathFilm Writing Author:Pedro Almodovar