“I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.” IfsYearsEndsLeftAchieveHavensPaintingMy TimeWorthwhile Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.” WorldWayRealDoneOrderAchieveColorPaintingReal LifeSatisfiedPurityBombsUrgesThrowingConventionsMaximumRenewalTangibleLiberated Author:Maurice de Vlaminck
“Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.” IfsMindDoePurposePiecesAchievePaintingExerciseElementsCrossesAbstractThreadUniformsFabricRepresentationLackingIncompleteComplementary Author:Juan Gris
“When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.” KnowsMenDoeMomentsAchievePaintingPhotographyRelationCamerasPaintVansVividSunflower Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.” WritingWellsEndsArtistBreakAchieveCenturyPaintingExpressionPhotographyAimInstrumentsBlindBlowAppearanceInventionMortalsImitationAssuredNineteenth CenturyRecklessness Author:Andre Breton