“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
“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.” FeelsMayI CanBeautifulWaterStudyGreaterSummerSeasonsWinterStudiosSpreadPainterRejoiceRecallsSmall ThingsDrop Of WaterFirmament Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch
“In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.” MayPaintingPerfectionStudiosCompositionArrangements Author:Walter J. Phillips
“At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.” ShouldYearsWellsMayI CanTwoEnoughLightHouseHalfStepsBuildingStudiosTwo YearsBedroomChimneysBedroom House Author:E. J. Hughes
“In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real.” IfsWayMayI CanRealWaitingVisionDarknessHavensPaintingStudiosBedroom Author:Jules Olitski
“Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.” MayArtistDealsCasesChangedDirectorsStudiosProducersThings Have ChangedMayer Author:Lew Wasserman
“Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed.” IfsGivingShouldMayArtistPerfectPiecesStyleStudiosCraftsmanHandwritingQuirksFabrication Author:Grayson Perry