“If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.” IfsMightBeautifulFrontsPaintingMessWhy NotWowMight Is Right Author:Albert Oehlen
“If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.” IfsThinkingWorldWonderFrontsPaintingGlassesTemplesWonder Of The World Book:Thirteen bronzes: Alberto Giacometti Source: Thirteen bronzes: Alberto Giacometti
“Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.” MadeBodyRecordsFrontsMovementPaintingPaintCastsPainterSatDelicateGesturesCanvasPortraitsTense Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.” TryingActionLastsProcessActingForeverFrontsPaintingGrainComes And GoesEphemeral Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?” IfsKnowsLooksSubjectsFrontsPaintingMarkOutcomesColourImprovisationFlooding Author:Peter Wright
“Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.” FrontsPaintingInternetGreat ThingsFriendly Author:Julian Schnabel
“In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.” MenFrontsPaintingAverageOilPrincipalSpectatorsBe A ManProtagonistsOil Painting Author:John Berger
“When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that I'm in when I'm in front of a canvas, or when I'm writing a story about one of my paintings, or when I'm playing music. Whatever I'm doing at any given time, it's the same exact zone.” WritingStoriesShowsGivenFrontsPaintingScriptsZoneWorking ItCanvasPlaying Music Author:Michael Marisi Ornstein
“I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.” ThinkingLooksRealGirlFoundFrontsPaintingCamerasPhotographNakedWowDepressingVenusBlurryPolaroidsVenus De Milo Author:John Currin
“The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.” SometimesWholeShowsDarkClassTeacherSubjectsFrontsPaintingPhotographyRemainsExperimentsPrintHumiliation Author:Hiroshi Hamaya
“You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.” MindHeartFrontsPaintingConnections Author:Rosanne Cash
“I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.” ThinkingBookSchoolRememberFrontsPaintingHigh SchoolGenuineSculpture Author:Joe Bradley
“You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.” ShouldFrontsPaintingCreatingPaintCloudsMythFactorsLandscapeShould ITimelessVacuums Author:William S. Burroughs
“At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.” IfsWritingTryingHas BeensHandsAgeWantedYoungMy OwnFrontsPaintingShapesYoung Age Author:El-P
“I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.” IndividualDifficultFocusFrontsPaintingIsolatedSculptureIndividual Work Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.” KnowsCharacterBigsFrontsStrangePaintingDoctorsCanvasDay To DayCentreIconicAmerican CharacterStrange Days Author:Benedict Cumberbatch