“When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.” MayStillsPaintingTechniqueMeatFlatsThrillPainting A Picture Book:Black paintings Source: Black paintings
“Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.” NeedsFactsPaintingDeceptionFlatsViewers Author:Robert Genn
“For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.” PaintingSuperiorsPainterFlatsMethodology Author:Michel Eugene Chevreul
“The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.” WellsRealUsedArtistThreeEffectsPaintingWallDramaUnderstoodEnormousFlatsNichePhenomenal Author:Werner Herzog
“The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.” WayFeelsLooksStillsWholeUseLightFilmDarkChangedColorPaintingClothesSeparationGet BetterSubtleDigitalFlatsPrintingScreeningLight And DarkJuxtaposition Author:Colleen Atwood