“The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsWellsHas BeensMadeI CanProblemAbleBeautifulEnjoyLosesCreativityFailingPaintingOffersProjectsCapacitySurpriseMona LisaBeautiful Paintings Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.” FirstsArtMadeSchoolPaintingSummerPerformancesOilBowsAwakenedInstituteMichiganOil Painting Author:Claes Oldenburg
“All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.” WantYearsFirstsArtIdeasEarthCan DoPayWonderPaintingExpressionGratitudeArt IsProductionsSeekingMakersEpiphanyFramedDensSouvenirsExpressions Of Love Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the greatest painting' and I say, 'It is to me.' OK, you can look at a beautiful painting and say, 'That's beautiful' but to me, it feels warmer to fill my home with pictures of friends and family and paintings of places I've gone. That's what I want to come home to.” PeopleWantFeelsFirstsWellsLooksHomeBeautifulGonePaintingComing HomeFamily And FriendsMadridBeautiful Paintings Author:George Clooney
“I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.” FirstsI CanShowsWantedPaintingPlatesInhibitions Author:Julian Schnabel
“I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.” ThinkingFirstsLooksHeavenPaintingPauses Author:Owen Wilson
“If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.” IfsFirstsWellsPaintingPhotographyDrawsPaintPhotographDrawingPrint Author:Bill Jay
“I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.” FirstsArtistPaintingMediums Author:Scott Avett
“I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision their legacy, that is. Often this is because they're afraid to commit for fear of failure.” PeopleFirstsHardPaintingCommitLegacyHard TimesCompellingFear Of Failure Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.” FirstsPaintingChineseExhibitionsShanghai Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.” PeopleFirstsDifferentBigsUsedSpaceRoomsSawsNicePaintingSevenParisColourGalleryVery NiceExhibitionsDifferent Colours Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsArtYoungBlackLevelsSawsExamplePaintingWallInstitutionsSacredInspiredTechniqueScalesLos AngelesMuseumsHeroicCompositionVansUrgencyCountyBarbershop Author:Kehinde Wiley
“My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.” FirstsArtInfluenceModernDesignParticularPaintingEngagedRepresentativesSculptureAvant GardeIntersections Author:Zaha Hadid
“Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.” YearsFirstsSchoolStudyDesignPaintingPhotographyThirdsFourthFifthGraphicGraphic DesignFourth Year Author:Ryan McGinley