Best painting & differences Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.”

Men Should May Art Shows Differences Teach Design Greatness Humility Painting Architecture Works Of Art Sculpture Exhibits Greatness Of Man

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.”

Lying Differences Painting Expression Shapes Idiosyncrasies Monochrome

Author:Guido Molinari

“It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.”

Art Differences Lines Painting Meaningful Really Mean Competent Outlines Really Meaningful

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“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.”

Thinking Differences Painting Photography Aspect Dialogue Painter Visuals Ongoing

Author:James Nares

“A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.”

Men Differences Tree Objects Painting Shadow Casts Fountain Sculpture

Author:Benvenuto Cellini

“There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.”

Eye Differences Painting

Author:Larry Poons

“When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.”

Humans Art Use Form Differences Painting Photograph Colour Partnership

Author:Ben Harper

“There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.”

“It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and a painting. An illustration serves a specific purpose, and a painting is something you can immerse yourself in.”

Book Purpose Differences Painting Illustration

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.”

Differences Painting

Author:Fred Williams

“For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space.”

Differences Space Happened Century Building Painting Photography Method Photograph Landscape 20th Century Highlighting Landscape Painting

Author:Cynthia Daignault

“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.”

Thinking Has Beens Light Bits Differences Quality Rich Particular Painting Areas Dialogue Weather Atmosphere Rolling Fog Abstraction Exotic Grids Bay Area

Author:Stephen Beal

“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.”

Men Made Process Differences Attitude Taken Streets He Man Painting Skills Photography Photograph Invention Traditional Schemes Selection Synthesis

Author:John Szarkowski

“I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.”

Mean Bigs Differences Painting Photography Distinction

Author:Sigmar Polke

“Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs have clearly been manipulated, the 'opinions' seem to have all the more force, with the suggested 'participation of the world' articulating that 'opinion' as a difference.”

World Seems Force Differences Opinion Painting Mark Relation Photograph Organize Participation Articulating

Author:Joseph Kosuth

“There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.”

Wells Made Black Differences Known Painting Well Known Notorious

Author:Frank Stella

“To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.”

People Two Jobs Differences Stage Painting Bars Rely Lighthouse Two Jobs

Author:Danny Fox

“Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living with - imagine if this were sitting in your living room for 15 years. You'd probably understand the contours of it.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills Ideas Differences Rooms Imagine Painting Sitting Living Room

Author:Kehinde Wiley

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