Best looks & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.”

Want Looks Left Felt College Painting Decided Royal

Author:Chris Ofili

“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Made Two Whole Film Certain Walks Minutes Havens Painting Consumed Gallery Down Time

Author:Julie Mehretu

“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.”

Source: Losing Julia

“In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.”

“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.”

Humans Looks Persons Stills Character Artist Order Individual Memories Simple Behinds Effects Painting Depends Response Who We Are Simple Truths

Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.”

Ifs World Looks Asks Painting Perception Ask Me

Book:Looking for answers: conversations on art and science

Source: Looking for answers: conversations on art and science

“It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.”

Years Looks Artist Difficult Painting Shock Difficult Things

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.”

World Should Looks Information Painting Painter Anxious

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.”

Looks Painting

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Helping Use Situation Painting Doctors Gallery

Author:Lucian Freud

“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

Thinking Feels Looks Littles Has Beens Real Country Nature Walks Rocks Painting Paint Clouds Studios Woods Each Day Living Things Diagrams

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“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.”

Want Humans Looks Reason Views Painting Paint Glasses Command Intimacy Intimate Look Up Reducing

Author:Mark Rothko

“Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Too Much Painting Impulsive

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.”

Years Looks Remember Certain Music Painting Months Music Is Execution

Author:Robert Genn

“I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double of mine... what they're really doing is barely getting by and helping me sell 1,000 paintings a year effortlessly, because they make my paintings look like such a bargain. Thank you to all the egotistical art students!”

Years Looks Art Helping Shows Artist Millions Students Mines Painting Sells Bargains Egotistical Debut Famous Artist Art Students Barely Getting By

Author:Mark Kostabi

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.”

Giving Looks Whole Term Alive Painting Ambition Mark Surface Constructs Intervals My Ambition

Author:Andrew Forge

“You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.”

Mind Wells Looks May Book Dream Painting Slave Listening To Music

Author:Paul Gauguin

“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”

Knows Men Way Want Looks Ideas Country Running Past House Know How Generations Painting Revolution Kings Garden Army Factories Regimes Estates Pointing Mistress Souvenirs Country Houses

Author:Peter Weiss

“Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?”

Looks Littles Enough Painting Flower Messages Bully Daisies Rave

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.”

Giving Looks Has Beens Made Seems Moving Modern Century Painting Comparison License Modernism

Author:James Elkins

“A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.”

Way Want Giving Trying Firsts Looks Kind Reality Feet Painting Photography Painter Maps

Author:Peter Doig

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