“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
“Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.” WayRealFilmFormWaterPaintingPaintBoundsPlanesGravitySculpturePigment Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.” MayPaintingBoundsEngagementViewersEpistemology Author:Guido Molinari
“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.” WorldNeedsDoeRealBeautifulForceFearRealizingImaginationPaintingHabitBoundsUglyDuesBeing RealImaginaryProjectionFree Yourself Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.” KnowsMenMayBookWholeOrderBrainCreativityTroubleDangerousPaintingCriticismSafetyRateBoundsDuesBetter OffCalvesTicklish Author:Herman Melville