“It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.” EnoughSeemsColorPaintingAmbitionMassDrawsDrawingDistractionDrawing And Painting Book:The drawings of Philip Guston Source: The drawings of Philip Guston
“I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.” PeopleGivingPaintingSeriousGiving UpAmbition Author:Robert Bateman
“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.” GivingLooksWholeTermAlivePaintingAmbitionMarkSurfaceConstructsIntervalsMy Ambition Author:Andrew Forge
“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.” PeopleWantKindArtThreeLinesLevelsAwarenessPaintingAmbitionUnderstoodPraiseCriticsBurningConfusedSignificancePlasticFluidModernismPainting A Picture Author:Arnold Friberg
“Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.” PaintingBrotherBecomingAmbitionConventionalRepresentationWright Brothers Author:Peter Schjeldahl