“Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting then it must be serious. I think Picasso can be hilarious, to name one example.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNamesExamplePaintingSeriousComfortableSense Of Humor Author:Joe Bradley
“A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.” WayWellsI CanBookHomeStuffPaintingComfortableFilledFishesSculptureFurnitureLamps Author:Frank Gehry
“My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.” ArtRoomsWatchesStudentsPaintingOfficeComfortableAreasMeetingsStudiosClientsArt Students Author:Doug Dawson
“In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.” IfsMenNeedsFeelsWritingDoeMatterPaintingEasierComfortableProfessionDozenUrgent Author:Malcolm Cowley
“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
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.” KnowsLooksArtStillsEndsEyeArtistDarkCareersToo MuchSeeingPaintingSafeComfortableTiredDetailsWarmBlindnessNeedlesMiniatures Author:Ian McDonald
“If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.” IfsKnowsLooksLittlesPaintingComfortableBotherGet AwayComing Back Author:Mordicai Gerstein