“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
“Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.” MeanArtForcePaintingMoralityContraryCharmPrimitiveExtensionsDecadence Book:Georges Braque Source: Georges Braque
“For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.” ArtArtistPaintingContraryGapsMinorsExtensionsFrustrating Author:Sonia Delaunay
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.” ArtProblemEyeFilmCasesSpecialPaintingPridePhotographyBasesCamerasVideoMediumsDominantExtensionsNineteenVerdictWitheredPictorialExemption Author:Peter Schjeldahl