“Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.” ShouldForceObjectsPaintingPerspectiveDisappearBeholder Book:Georges Braque Source: Georges Braque
“A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.” ArtMomentsMightFeltCreationPaintingPromiseSpringDisappearPainterWorks Of ArtRealisingDissatisfactionCompletionComplete Happiness Author:Lucian Freud
“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.” ShouldArtHardWholeFormForceMistakeTakenFourCenturyObjectsPaintingPerspectiveTraditionCreditDisappearRenaissanceImposingBeholderGhastlyRedressCezanne Author:Georges Braque
“But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.” FeelsArtSelfReasonArtistPaintingJudgingGoes OnProveCourtCriticalDisappearTrialsNo ReasonCanvasGlancesJuryProve ItProsecutor Author:Philip Guston
“All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.” IdeasWarCareBeautifulLawGirlStuffPaintingPlanetsFlowerDisciplineSpeciesDisappearWho CaresAvenuesBrooklynBeautiful GirlRefiningHeatingFlatnessHeating Up Author:Chris Martin
“Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.” KnowsYearsPersonsFilmYoungActorsPaintingYears AgoDisappearDrawingFiftyGrantsMovie ActorsPainting And Drawing Author:David Hockney