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“It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.”

Way Impossible Painting Edges

Author:Howard Hodgkin

“A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.”

Progress Painting Edges

Author:Kazuaki Tanahashi

“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”

World Way Art Book Real Ends Eye Artist Numbers Pieces Painting Art Is Edges Determine Determined Boundaries Subtle Real World Frontiers

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.”

World Modern Painting Edges Indifferent Hostile Modernism Neurosis

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.”

Way Reality Form Can Do Painting Infinite Edges Surrender Revealing

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.”

Light Silence Painting Shadow Casts Edges Tone Companion

Author:Pierre Coupey

“Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.”

Children Song Creative Cutting Painting Our Children Edges Our Family Cutting Edge

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”

Knows Reality Pain Suffering Turns Grief Know How Taught Painting Scene Experience Court Edges Mood Shallow Counterfeit

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.”

Men Giving Mind Hands Form Color Painting Shapes Paper Essence Bases Edges Drawing Command Outlines

Author:Alexander Eliot

“On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.”

Way Moments Felt Water Memories White Morning Darkness Tree Painting Summer Shining Edges Woods Tall Wet Patches Gloomy Marshes Birch Trees

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe