“It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.” MenWellsYoungPaintingModelsDrawsYoung ManOver ItCurtains Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.” IfsLooksMy OwnRoomsDealsPaintingDrawsWindowPaintCurtains Book:Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne Source: Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne
“When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.” KindSaidSchoolUsedStuffPaintingAbstractColourNeglectFormalCurtainsTutorAbstract Painting Author:Damien Hirst