“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.” MenWellsActionPoorResultsFiguresProducePaintingMastersEmbraceFortuitous Book:Notebooks Source: Notebooks
“Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.” WayDoneBloodPaintingEmbraceMaking LoveCaution Author:Joan Miro
“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
“At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.” SeemsFormPaintingActivityEmbraceChosenMediumsArtisticThreatenedDespisedSkillfulAndrew Author:Edward Lucie-Smith
“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.” MindDoneFactsArtistWhitePaintingPureTraditionRootsEmptyMethodEmbraceStartingFlyingSpotsEmptinessRealisingStrokesBrushesPenetrateSpontaneityApparitions Author:Antoni Tapies
“The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.” PeopleArtShowsLightAgePaintingDramaEmbraceIntellectArchitectureWelcomeDecorationHandmaids Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature