“I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.” StillsMovementPaintingIllusionExcitingTricksFixed Author:Cecily Brown
“There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.” ThinkingMeanHumanityNiceAlivePaintingExcitingExtensionsDistillation Author:Will Cotton
“How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.” PaintingExcitingOriginalsAdmireVainAdmirationResemblance Author:Blaise Pascal
“I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.” KnowsYearsArtLeftStuffPaintingHappeningsExcitingPainterHolidayElsewhereKansasConceptual Art Author:David Salle
“The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.” IfsWayKindEnergyEffortPaintingExcitingGet UpCentsFinishing Author:Burton Silverman
“The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.” KindPaintingExcitingMusicalAbstractVisuals Book:Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs Source: Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs
“There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.” ChanceStudyPaintingFineExcitingDrawingTexture Author:John French Sloan
“I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.” TryingKindTwoThreeColorPaintingExcitingSurfaceAbstractDimensionsBelongingVibrancyThree DimensionsAbstract PaintingSticking It Author:Euan Uglow
“I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.” LastsNextPaintingExcitingExcellenceStriveThe Next OneExciting Things Author:Robert Lyn Nelson
“When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.” WorldLooksLyingArtistUniverseInterestingSubjectsPossibilityColorPaintingShapesBehaviorElementsExcitingRegardWingsChaosPatternsEndlessCombinationFascinatingBalancedFeathersTextureWildlifeEcosystemsLureTrimmingEndless PossibilitiesRectangles Author:Charley Harper
“No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world will not throw billions of dollars at photography the way it has at painting; and that is what makes it an exciting medium.” WorldWayArtPaintingPhotographyExcitingDollarsPhotographBillionsRationalMediumsArt World Book:Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
“I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.” ThinkingFilmEasyPaintingListeningExcitingArchitectureTime TravelRealisedLive In The PresentTravellerPlaying Music Author:Jools Holland
“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.” IfsLooksArtSchoolDifficultBreakPaintingDutyDrawsFemaleExcitingWesternMalesUpsetFridayTabooTuesdayArt School Author:Peter Greenaway
“I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsArtTwoDreamSongHalfMinesPaintingArt IsExcitingDiedVansHalf A Year Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda