“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.” IfsLittlesArtStillsEyeYoungMotherGirlSpaceForgetAnimalSawsTeacherModernStagePaintingTablesPaintCreatorTongueRingsCleverStaringAbstractFiftyNever ForgetCoveredMuseumsPotBellsRealismBowlsVagueBrushesModernismSlapTubesWristsModern ArtInclineAbstract ArtSticking OutStaring Into Space Author:Jean Cocteau
“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.” EarthMotherBornPaintingTastePainterMilkMilieu Author:Yves Klein
“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.” LightFormMotherToo MuchPaintingDecidedEssenceValuablePassingPassingsBoatLandscapeFeaturesAnnoyingExecutionLocksCan NotRoyalAcademyBrightnessLightnessScholastics Author:John Constable
“During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair.'” SaidMotherPresidentWifeImpossiblePaintingHairPaintFormerInterviewsHobbiesPresident George W Bush Author:Jimmy Fallon
“How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.” PeopleKnowsHandsMotherFatherEmotionAttitudePaintingSonDaughterAbstractIntricateSon And DaughterPolaroids Book:At Large Source: At Large
“The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.” FeelsWellsLooksArtMadeKidsMotherStuffLove IsPaintingWallHusbandMy FriendsFolksRelatedAbstractMy HusbandOutsidersMy FriendshipAbstract ArtEbayFolk ArtPersonal StuffSurrounded By Love Author:Kathleen Hanna