“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!” YearsWellsResultsProgressChangedPaintingOne DayTenYellowPalette Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.” TechnologyChangedPaintingOilNew TechnologyOil Painting Author:Joe Bradley
“Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.” MadeSpaceChangedPaintingLowsBiggerStudiosCeilingsHorizontal Author:James Rosenquist
“For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.” I CanDifferentBeautifulGivenStuffIssuesFiguresChangedColorPaintingMaterialsOilMediumsHuePigment Author:Nathan Oliveira
“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
“My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.” PeopleWorldWayTwoChangedPaintingCommunicationTwo Worlds Author:Robert Lyn Nelson
“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBelieveHumansLooksUsedLyingImaginationHuman BeingsImagineSeaChangedPaintingSceneProjectsPhotographyCamerasPhotographerMediumsLandscapeViewersMy ImaginationBelievableNever LiePhotography Love Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.” ThinkingArtRunningGamesInfluenceChangedPaintingPathwaysWarholRubens Author:Jenny Saville
“[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.” YoungKnownChangedStrangePaintingChanged My Life Author:Agnes Varda
“The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.” WayFeelsLooksStillsWholeUseLightFilmDarkChangedColorPaintingClothesSeparationGet BetterSubtleDigitalFlatsPrintingScreeningLight And DarkJuxtaposition Author:Colleen Atwood