“Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.” NeedsBrainPaintingIntellectualFingers Author:Ray Bradbury
“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
“Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is so changed that there is no way of just visualizing it in the brain... It's a whole new dimension in painting.” WayWantWholeWhiteBrainTechnologyChangedPaintingWallProjectsWhat You WantVersionsDimensionsVisualizingWhite Walls Author:Jim Rowe
“What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?” ThinkingDifficultBrainPaintingDifficultySurgeryMake You ThinkBrain Surgery Author:Christopher Willard
“It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.” WritingIdeasSometimesActionBrainCareersNicePaintingSeriousHelpfulHobbies Author:Erin Morgenstern
“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