“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.” HumansLooksPersonsStillsCharacterArtistOrderIndividualMemoriesSimpleBehindsEffectsPaintingDependsResponseWho We AreSimple Truths Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting
“In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.” ShouldOpinionEffectsPaintingApproachStandardsExcellentProportionRelief Author:Michelangelo
“Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?” MindTogetherArtistEnergyLinesEffectsColorPaintingDepthDetailsSurfaceArisePlanesIntensitySerenityVolumeCompositionSpectatorsCalmnessReposeBeing Together Author:Eli Siegel
“A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.” IfsWantFirstsHelpingAbleUnderstandingEffectsPaintingFatsCaressCourtesans Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.” EffectsPaintingImprovingMethodology Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
“A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.” HumansWellsHeartDoneMovingEmotionRecordsEffectsEmotionalPaintingMovedIllLandscapeHuman HeartSplendourLandscape Painting Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.” FactsInterestingEffectsPaintingEssentialsNotesSimplicityStudiosPencilsMost InterestingElimination Author:Walter J. Phillips
“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.” MeanEndsSidesEffectsPaintingPaperConsciousEmbraceMerePaintStriveTechniqueExpressiveMeans To An EndMannerisms Author:Walter J. Phillips
“When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.” ThinkingWorldRealityFormFantasyEffectsPaintingExpressionHabitPainterUnprecedented Author:Pierre Alechinsky
“When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.” IfsEyeRoomsEffectsTelevisionPaintingBarsSettling Author:Joe Bradley
“With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.” NeedsUseWould BeOrderLinesResultsEffectsObjectsPaintingMaterialsUniversalAimWingsDrawingColourButterflyOrganizeSoupVividPatchesRealisedConstituentsSparklingFlavourDrawing And PaintingButterfly Wings Author:Jean Dubuffet
“In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsTryingArtUseAbleSimplePowerfulEffectsPaintingFineIndustryDirectAlbumsEntertainmentBunchShirtsT ShirtUsefulnessFine ArtsEntertainment IndustryLogosReally PowerfulAlbum Covers Author:Andrew W.K.
“The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.” WellsRealUsedArtistThreeEffectsPaintingWallDramaUnderstoodEnormousFlatsNichePhenomenal Author:Werner Herzog
“My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.” YearsWellsDoeHas BeensArtBookDifferentArtistFatherKnownGrowing UpGrowingEffectsPaintingPaintWell Known Author:John Dyer
“Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.” MenFeelsHappensEyeWalksPowerfulEnvironmentStreetsEffectsPaintingCoupleBedStudiosOilStuckGalleryHarassmentOffendersOil PaintingStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.” BookFilmCultureEffectsPaintingSceneMusicianDestructionPainterArtisticFilmmakerGiantsTapeBurnedTalibanSculptorsInfamousAfghanVandalismVcr Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.” EnoughSimpleStudyEffectsPaintingStriveSimplicityComplexity Author:Chai Lu
“I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost "use-value"-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.” ThinkingUseCertainValuesPracticeEffectsPaintingTypeDrivenAgentsLuxuryConsumersGoodsWealthyInvestigationMarxistLuxury Goods Author:Kehinde Wiley