“Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.” WantWritingI CanIdeasWaitingPaintingActivitySittingStaringProductiveTrailersHurry Up And Wait Author:Lucas Neff
“Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.” SoulPaintingActivityDimensionsRenewalTransport Author:Prince Charles
“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.” ArtistPaintingActivityMature Author:Ad Reinhardt
“Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.” SeemsPaintingHabitActivitySeriesBoundsBoredomBoresRecurring Author:Rene Magritte
“Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.” WantTryingKindI CanIdeasWholeFormCertainEducationPaintingMastersActivityStructureLeapCompositionInhuman Author:Philip Guston
“When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.” ThinkingWorldLittlesRealAirCarTelevisionPaintingActivityPaintSpeedAbsurdGloriousReal WorldSquaresSunlightCanvasAnimationMotorFresh AirHigh SpeedWorlds ApartMotor Cars Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.” SeemsFormPaintingActivityEmbraceChosenMediumsArtisticThreatenedDespisedSkillfulAndrew Author:Edward Lucie-Smith
“You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.” IdeasLeftBornSpaceBrainSeeingPaintingActivityShapesStructureMoodRealizationColourEnteringEngagingHemisphere Author:Guido Molinari
“All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.” ArtCharacterPaintingActivityArt IsUltimateNervousErotic Author:Patrick Swift
“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.” ArtLyingLeftBehindsHalfGracePaintingPoetMastersActivitySoldierFinishedThinkerReplacedLeft BehindStatesmenProvincesCompletionGod's GraceGreat Poet Author:Adolf Hitler
“Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.” CreativityParticularPaintingActivitySingingDancing Author:Rajneesh
“I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.” DecisionPaintingInvolvedActivityDecision MakingPhysical Activity Author:Stephen Beal
“I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.” SometimesValuesMediaPaintingActivityVisualsFascinatingHuePhysical ActivityMateriality Author:Stephen Beal
“You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.” HumansStillsMovingCenturyPaintingWalkingActivitySpeedTake Time20th CenturyHuman ActivityWrappingWrapping Up Author:Joe Bradley