“I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.” TryingProblemPaintingOppositesStructureSymbolic Book:Robert Motherwell Source: Robert Motherwell
“With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.” WorldDoeOrderProcessBuildingPaintingPhotographyOppositesComplexesPhotographerPhotographBlockSimplifyBuilding BlocksSynthetic Author:Stephen Shore
“If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That's why it's not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not-you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHardMightArtistCarPossibilityPaintingOppositesAccountsTablesInvisibleManageVisualsEngineersSculptureVisual ArtVisual Artist Author:Richard Tuttle
“A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.” ShouldLooksSpaceRoomsMiddlePaintingWallWindowOppositesBottomCeilings Author:Pierre Soulages
“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.” PeopleThinkingDoeWholePainParticularPaintingOppositesDetailsPeaches Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.” WritingRichStrangePaintingWallEmptyOppositesJuicy Author:Tom Robbins
“Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?” KnowsMeanArtWinningCitiesPaintingWallToolsOppositesMonkeysPubsGraffitiChainsaw Author:Banksy
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.” WayMayDifferentPainRememberForgetRecordsPaintingPhotographyOppositesPhotographPainterDifferent ThingsCapturing A Moment Photography Author:John Berger