“What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.” WayTryingFormSpacePleasurePaintingShapesOrganizationPaintWork OutRhythmLandscapeVisualsRealisticComposingGreatest PleasuresFugueSonatasCezanne Author:Ian Hornak
“I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensDoneUsePastPracticeImpossiblePaintingComputerAidsDrawingScalesPlanningColourTransformedStampsComposingInstallationPostagePostage Stamps Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills.” PeopleMenChildrenEyeAgeTogetherFallWealthPleasureDogFieldsBuildingPaintingSceneHorseDressesDelightAppearancePainterVarietyHillsNarrativeAbundanceDiverseUniquenessObserversMixturesComposing Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.” WritingKindSelfHappensFallReadingPaintingListeningTransformationFalling In LoveSubmitComposingErosSwept Away Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art