“When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.” WantLooksLeftFeltCollegePaintingDecidedRoyal Author:Chris Ofili
“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksMeanFeelingsEyeThreeLiteratureFeltPaintingFindingsHundredYears AgoSpotsIslandsSandClueFootprintDesertedIndescribableCandlelightDeserted IslandFootprints In The Sand Book:Losing Julia Source: Losing Julia
“If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.” IfsWould BeAsksFeltPaintingResponsePaintPainter Author:Robert Motherwell
“A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.” ArtMomentsMightFeltCreationPaintingPromiseSpringDisappearPainterWorks Of ArtRealisingDissatisfactionCompletionComplete Happiness Author:Lucian Freud
“Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.” FeelingsJoyFeltPleasureHalfCreativeMagicPaintingConnectionsColour Author:Sara Genn
“After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.” NeedsYearsFeltSubjectsPaintingOilLandscapeWildlifePortraiture Author:Ron Parker
“As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.” PeopleLooksStillsRealUsedFeltImaginationBoysPaintingMastersEmpathyPaintStriveEnjoymentPortraitsMy ImaginationCapturedReproduction Author:David Cobley
“Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?” KnowsMadeIdeasFeelingsArtistFeltStudySubjectsPaintingPersonalityMessagesResponseSensitivity Author:Gerald Brommer
“I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.” EnergyWishFeltPaintingPaintEnergetic Author:Wanda Koop
“I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours.” IfsWorldLongHardHelpingFeltWaterPaintingHard WorkHolyLong TimeCrisisWarmColourVery StrongMumKateMossHoly Water Author:Stella Vine
“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.” ThinkingFeltSpaceAirSpecialPaintingComfortableBuiltStudiosDecent Author:Peter Doig
“Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."” PeopleThinkingFeelsSometimesArtistHateFeltEnjoyPaintingUnderstoodAbstractWowCriedAbstract Painting Author:Jose Parla
“It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.” IfsArtImportantHardHappensSchoolArtistCertainUniverseFeltCreativeTaughtPaintingDisciplineSkillsUniqueStandardsGainsAcademicArt SchoolDraftingImmersing YourselfAcademic Standards Author:John Dyer Baizley
“I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.” PeopleWayLifeNeedsMadeStillsFeltInterestingClassSubjectsPaintingDrawingBest WayGet BackVery Interesting Author:Peter Wright
“On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.” WayMomentsFeltWaterMemoriesWhiteMorningDarknessTreePaintingSummerShiningEdgesWoodsTallWetPatchesGloomyMarshesBirch Trees Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.” YearsFirstsDonePlayFactsDreamFeltRolesStylePaintingEnormousLandscapeInsecureOmenReplica Author:April Gornik
“Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.” IdeasArtistGirlFeltPaintingDrivenPower Trip Author:Malcolm Morley
“Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars.” YearsMadeFeltMillionsPaintingDiedDollarsRelevantMillion Dollars Author:Peter Frampton
“I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.” LanguageFeltPaintingMilesGave UpInstrumental Music Author:Rosanne Cash
“With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.” KnowsFeltPaintingAbstractOffering Author:Kurt Wagner
“I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.” KindDifferentFeltAttitudePaintingDeservePaintPainterShyDifferent KindsAdopted Author:Black Francis
“I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring the painting for some time, and then realized that in addition to feeling moved by the beauty of the painting, I felt a little jealous of the painter.” LittlesArtFeelingsFeltParentTakenPaintingMovedPainterMuseumsJealousVansAdmiring Author:Liza Campbell