“When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.” PeopleThinkingEnoughPaintingThirdsDialogueAbstractCanvasAbstract Painting Author:Philip Guston
“I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.” I CanDoneProgressSharePaintingSolitudeDialogue Author:Ken Danby
“Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.” ArtistSpeakColorPaintingMassPaintMoodDialogueUnspoken Author:James Elkins
“My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual.” ThinkingDifferencesPaintingPhotographyAspectDialoguePainterVisualsOngoing Author:James Nares
“I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light.” ThinkingHas BeensLightBitsDifferencesQualityRichParticularPaintingAreasDialogueWeatherAtmosphereRollingFogAbstractionExoticGridsBay Area Author:Stephen Beal