“Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?” WellsKindMayDoneEyeAnswersFiguresPaintingPaintDrawingWitPublic EyeCataloguesFigure Painting Book:the works of thomas hood Source: the works of thomas hood
“You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.” GivingAnswersWalksSeaPaintingMoonRemainsInvestigationElude Book:Picasso and his art Source: Picasso and his art
“To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.” KnowsFirstsWantedSimpleAnswersPaintingFinishedFinishing Author:James Elkins
“What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.” ThinkingKindArtImportantHardProblemHappensLanguageAnswersPaintingPaintHistorianArt HistoryImportant Questions Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.” IfsWayBigsSeemsAnswersPaintingAddressesHopelessBig Questions Author:Sam Messer
“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.” GivingChildrenHas BeensArtI CanHelpingInspirationFacesDesireSongGamesAnswersStreetsPaintingSightPaintTerrorNewspapersNightmareRhymeItemsBecause I CanNurseryCaricaturesNursery Rhymes Book:Paula Rego Source: Paula Rego
“I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.” UseUsedAnswersPaintingNarrative Author:Danny Fox
“You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like yes/no answers that can be as complex as you want, and then you have strong A.I., which is basically like a human, like something that can think up a thought that's never been thought up or paint a painting or write a poem.” ThinkingWantWritingHumansStrongAnswersPaintingComputerWeakComplexesPaintListsArtificial IntelligenceArtificialRobotsLike SomethingProtocolComputer Systems Author:Neill Blomkamp