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“Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.”

Lying Cases Painting Weakness Essence Centre Point Break

Author:Luc Tuymans

“The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

Persons Emotion Painting Essentials Essence Painter Characteristics Portraiture

Author:Titian

“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.”

Light Form Mother Too Much Painting Decided Essence Valuable Passing Passings Boat Landscape Features Annoying Execution Locks Can Not Royal Academy Brightness Lightness Scholastics

Author:John Constable

“Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

Giving Mind Persons Art Done Facts Artist Emotion Talent Painting Essentials Essence Difficulty Pressure Profession Painter Characteristics Peace Of Mind Disappointed Under Pressure

Author:Titian

“Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.”

Humans Wells Real Stories Body Action Fiction Painting Essence Human Body True Story Resemblance

Book:The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.”

“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

“You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.”

Want Choices Painting Essence What You Want Chosen Arbitrary Discernment Elimination

Book:Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997

Source: Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997