“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.” IfsTryingHeartKindMayDifferentSoulFacesArtistExamplePaintingMastersPerspectiveHundredClaimsAll KindsPainterWorking ItDisplayMasterpieceHeart And SoulDifferent Perspective Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksMeanFeelingsEyeThreeLiteratureFeltPaintingFindingsHundredYears AgoSpotsIslandsSandClueFootprintDesertedIndescribableCandlelightDeserted IslandFootprints In The Sand Book:Losing Julia Source: Losing Julia
“I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.” MindPaintingMaterialsHundredPainterBridgesSpectatorsPretextMaterial Things Author:Eugene Delacroix
“Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.” YearsWellsLastsFiveGenerationsPaintingHundredTwentiesImmortalityThirtyTombstone Author:Robert Genn
“The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.” IfsArtIssuesPaintingEasierTenHundredAbsolutely Nothing Author:Joe Bradley
“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.” PeopleIfsWantYearsI CanCoursesCan DoCompassionPaintingCommunicationLaughterHundredAnd LovePaintColourMaking People Happy Author:Norval Morrisseau
“Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.” YearsAgePaintingPhotographyHundredYears AgoPhotographerRidiculousPainterThis DayImitationAbstractionImitatingLaughable Author:Berenice Abbott
“I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFirstsImportantPaintingMessagesHundredPaintCome UpUglyAround The WorldSensationsWombGrooveDiarrheaFrida Author:Kathleen Hanna
“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small, identical flowers. And so I've got a team that allows me to have these grand, sweeping statements.” ThinkingHandsLastsChristHoursTeamFeetExamplePaintingFlowerThousandHundredEightStatementsMassiveIdenticalTombsSweepingExhibitions Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.” YearsHumansHuman BeingsPaintingThousandHundredWanderHuntingThousand YearsCavesGatheringMultiplyingWandering Around Author:Howard Rheingold
“She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.” IfsBeautifulAnswersFiveSawsPaintingHundredMake SenseBeautiful ThingsRadiantNecklaces Author:Sophie Kinsella
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.” MenTwoAgeSchoolThreeLiteraturePaintingHundredDressesAgingArchitectureEighty Author:Lord Byron