“Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.” PeopleHandsLeftPaintingMassBuiltProductionsScalesIrrelevantPyramidsCathedralsNothing NewLeft HandMass Production Author:Ai Weiwei
“The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.” ArtUseLightPaintingArt IsBuiltWindowTemplesSignificanceSculptureBorrowing Author:J. G. Holland
“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.” EndsStoriesThreeProcessPerfectPaintingBuiltDepthUnconsciousPathwaysDreamworks Author:Billy Cannon
“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.” ThinkingFeltSpaceAirSpecialPaintingComfortableBuiltStudiosDecent Author:Peter Doig
“I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.” WantGivingPastPaintingMastersDeserveBuiltRootsImportanceIncludingSurfaceAbandonLayersCanvasTransparentMy Past Author:Jose Parla
“I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.” WayCertainViewsBehindsExamplePaintingColdBuiltFilledPaintGlassesBoxesPoint Of ViewControlledHidingSuggestionsClinicals Author:Oliver Jeffers
“Being here by the ocean in Malibu. Living in this beautiful house that we built, that took so long to build. Being in my art studio, painting. Packing my bags tomorrow to go home to Kauai where we have a house. Which all sounds very grand, and I suppose it is, in some respects, but nothing comes from nothing. It all comes from hard work.” LongArtHardHomeBeautifulHouseSoundPaintingHard WorkTomorrowOceanBuiltStudiosBagsPackingMalibu Author:Pierce Brosnan