“I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting.” ThinkingArtDifferentMatterArtistSubjectsPaintingTypeEssentialsTrainingMethodPaintExperimentsFormalSubject MatterArt HistoryDifferent Subjects Author:Ron Parker
“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.” IfsBelieveArtArtistNextI BelieveOpinionPaintingPureConcernedDrawingRejectsFormalCriteriaDepartureProgrammes Author:Gunter Brus
“When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.” KindSaidSchoolUsedStuffPaintingAbstractColourNeglectFormalCurtainsTutorAbstract Painting Author:Damien Hirst
“I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.” HumansPersonsFeelingsWantedHuman BeingsPaintingCircumstancesFormalPortraitsRelaxedMonarchyImpressionists Author:Rolf Harris
“Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.” ArtReasonFormWaterFictionIssuesStylePaintingElementsStrategyStructureMemoirCraftsNonfictionCompositionFormalPreciseCritiqueChronology Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.” LightFatherPaintingSkillsPhotographerColourAttributesCompositionFormal Author:Patricia Piccinini