“The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.” DoeLightSunPositionColorPaintingBearsLandscapeComparisonBrightnessVivacity Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.” WayNeedsArtNextLevelsStageTelevisionPaintingHigherMediumsComparisonSatisfyingCalendarsHigher Level Author:Eli Wallach
“Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.” GivingLooksHas BeensMadeSeemsMovingModernCenturyPaintingComparisonLicenseModernism Author:James Elkins
“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.” WorldShouldWellsLooksShowsRealityImaginationInformationProduceTaughtPaintingProfessionPainterComparisonPoeticAnxious Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)
“I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators or illustrators in general - all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to.” WellsKindChildrenArtBookPaintingDrawsFolksComparisonMuseumsChildren's BooksIllustratorsInuitFolk Art Author:Neil Farber
“I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.” FeelsShouldLongHas BeensArtImportantBookCultureTermPaintingFineEqualLong TimeLowsArt IsComicGenreContributionComparisonComic BookFine ArtsOther CulturesReally Long Author:Laura Owens