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“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.”

Humans Looks Persons Stills Character Artist Order Individual Memories Simple Behinds Effects Painting Depends Response Who We Are Simple Truths

Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.”

World Way Persons Done Character Social Painting Models Standing Assuming Characteristics Deliberate Retaliation

Author:Alice Neel

“By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.”

People Art Character Social Pleasure Fiction Audience Painting Approach Majority Crowds Narrative Visuals Plot Melody Elites Rhyme Favour Sculpture Meter Excluded Elitism Edification

Author:Steven Pinker

“If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.”

“A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.”

Persons Character Action Mankind Painting Manners Unnatural Inconsistent Resemblance Grotesque Caricatures Farce

Author:John Dryden

“what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.”

Thinking Writing Trying Doe Character Artist Order Painting Waste Logic Incredibles Seeking Make Sense Disorder Thread Marvelous

Book:Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

“All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.”

Art Character Painting Activity Art Is Ultimate Nervous Erotic

Author:Patrick Swift

“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.”

People Ifs Way Littles Ideas Sometimes Whole Character Use Interesting Common Painting Normal Negative Intention Monsters Reactions Sympathetic Monstrous

Author:Chris Mars

“But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.”

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.”

World Sometimes Character Stories Imagine Happened Painting Conversation Pages

Author:Neil Farber

“From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.”

Thinking Made Character Remember Artist Rocks Fashion Style Painting Personality Becoming Band Draws Accidents Drawing Designer Rock N Roll Fashion Designer

Author:Ashley Purdy

“When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but I'm actually a very skilled artist. That's why I released a Jack Nicholson portrait right after that that was very detailed in the face to show my skills.”

People Firsts Said Character Shows Faces Artist Guy Can Do Painting Skills Criticism Portraits Cartoon Monopoly Nicholson Cartoon Character

Author:Alec Monopoly

“I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.”

Heart Character Past Actors Painting My Heart Developing Character Actors

Author:Dylan McDermott

“Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a painting, or a bookcase - to watch something go from an idea to a creation is pretty much where it's at for me.”

Ideas Character Film Watches Creativity Pieces Creation Painting Creating Things I Love Short Films Bookcases Creating Things

Author:Eric Lange

“I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.”

Looks Character Painting Summer Treats Royal Academy Exhibitions Installation New Work

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.”

Knows Character Bigs Fronts Strange Painting Doctors Canvas Day To Day Centre Iconic American Character Strange Days

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.”

Knows Character Beautiful Painting Shapes Ridiculous Vans Envious Ivy

Author:Liza Campbell