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“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?”

Real Life Is Half Painting Communication Conversation Sentences Finished Real Life Overlapping

Author:Edgar Degas

“Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.”

Talking Painting Communication Valuable Incapable

Author:Georges Braque

“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.”

Action Artist Process Clear Painting Communication Drawing Visuals Mechanic Sculpture Spectators

Book:Drawing and Sculpture

Source: Drawing and Sculpture

“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.”

People Ifs Want Years I Can Courses Can Do Compassion Painting Communication Laughter Hundred And Love Paint Colour Making People Happy

Author:Norval Morrisseau

“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

People Ifs Knows Humans May Whole My Own Conditions Loneliness Painting Communication Reflection Human Condition Lack Of Communication

Author:Edward Hopper

“Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.”

Mind Made Ideas Creation Painting Communication Discovery Tools Depth Pulling

Author:Jim Rowe

“My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.”

People World Way Two Changed Painting Communication Two Worlds

Author:Robert Lyn Nelson

“It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.”

Doe Painting Communication Hopeless

Book:Francis Bacon

Source: Francis Bacon

“What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.”

“Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.”

People Ideas Different Real Form Honest Painting Communication Photograph Planes Visuals Subjective

Author:Tibor Kalman