“To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.” PaintingArgumentPaintFamiliarBegin Again Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.” KnowsFirstsTwoIdeasProblemTogetherOrderSubjectsPaintingFinishedFamiliarRecognitionEvokeFinished Work Author:Keith Crown
“Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.” EyeWantedCoursesGoalCreativePaintingFamiliarPainterHis EyesComposerOrchestraNew Music Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi
“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.” IdeasDoneMy OwnTaughtPaintingShapesDecidedI RealizedFamiliar Book:Some Memories of Drawings Source: Some Memories of Drawings
“I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.” WritingBookPaintingFlowerMy FavoriteFamiliarSkullsGeorgiaGeorgia O Keeffe Author:Liza Campbell