“The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.” PeopleWorldConditionsPaintingMembersStandardsMedicinePaintProfessionAssociationPilotsAirlineDentistryAirline Pilots Author:Robert Genn
“Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged on a particular work. And because we are more interested in plastic matters than we are in matters of words, once can begin a painting and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all. All pictures are full of association.” PeopleMatterCertainClearParticularPaintingPaintTitlesEngagedAssociationPlasticRecollection Author:William Baziotes
“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.” LyingArtistPowerEmotionalPaintingIntellectualConsciousResponseAssociationSubconsciousEmotional Response Author:Thomas S. Buechner
“In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.” MindFirstsArtIdeasMatterStoriesEnergyCausesActingPaintingCreatingWorks Of ArtConstructionAssociationPlasticSpectatorsStimulusDeparture Book:Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice Source: Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice