“Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!” HumansFactsStoriesTodayAmericaCultureStrongSportsSidesSimpleBoysRichGrowingPerspectiveHeroPeriodsProfoundPaintInternationalDetailsObsessedBiographiesParallelsAnecdotesCelebrity Culture Author:Nigel Hamilton
“Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.” ShouldFirstsHumansFeltInterestHuman BeingsInterestingPaintChairs Author:Edvard Munch
“It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.” ThinkingHumansTodayPaintAbsurdPortraiture Book:Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse Source: Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse
“The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.” WantHumansLooksReasonViewsPaintingPaintGlassesCommandIntimacyIntimateLook UpReducing Author:Mark Rothko
“The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.” PeopleHumansArtSometimesAcceptingHuman NatureAcceptanceSeriousOughtOceanPaintUnfortunateQuirks Author:Robert Genn
“I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.” ThinkingWorldYearsHumansStillsShowsUnderstandingNumbersLaughingCryPrayingStructurePaintPreservesCurseDetest Author:Janice Tanton
“The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.” TryingHumansRealityLightFacesGraceMagicSucceedShadowPaintPassingPassingsPainterHuman FacesLight And ShadowOvertaking Author:John Edgar Park