“I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.” KidsBlackStagePaintingSuitsDramaticSparkleBathingBathing Suits Author:Selena Gomez
“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.” MenSelfDesireConsciousnessHonestPaintingEgoDegreesShadowPaintDramaticArtificialIntroducingPortraitsHighlightsSelf ConsciousnessSelf Portrait Author:W. H. Auden
“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.” ArtMomentsRealityActionUniverseCoursesPaintingDramaPureConcernedDestructionDramaticConsiderationPlasticSplitsPrecedence Author:Francoise Gilot
“Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.” ArtIdeasRealityLeftDangerObjectsPaintingArt IsDramaticAbstractRemoveSemblanceIndelibleAbstract Art Author:Pablo Picasso
“There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he was making them during some of the most ominous massacres in Tasmania. Forrest was recording history but missing the human story.” HumansStoriesBigsDarkInterestingMissingPaintingLandscapeDramaticInteresting ThingsGloomyMassacresOminousTasmania Author:Ben Quilty