“Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.” YearsWellsLastsFiveGenerationsPaintingHundredTwentiesImmortalityThirtyTombstone Author:Robert Genn
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king” KnowsMenWayWantLooksIdeasCountryRunningPastHouseKnow HowGenerationsPaintingRevolutionKingsGardenArmyFactoriesRegimesEstatesPointingMistressSouvenirsCountry Houses Author:Peter Weiss
“I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting than you're making. So it's something to think about and work toward and stay focused on.” IfsThinkingGenerationsPaintingCompetitionFocusedAnnoyingMore MoneyCompetingAnnoyedStay Focused Author:Frank Stella
“I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.” WarStudyGenerationsPaintingSonMathematicsMy SonCommerceAgriculturePolitics And War Author:John Quincy Adams
“There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLooksPersonsBigsRoomsHellGenerationsPaintingPlates Author:Julian Schnabel
“My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.” EyeGenerationsPaintingConflictRootsCorePainterClassicStemEditingIntrigueCapriceCompetencies Author:Billy Zane
“We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated. That's what I'm talking about, is that we have a regulatory system that is biased to protect profit and not to protect people. We need a much more precautionary and proactive regulatory system that is not influenced by the revolving door.” PeopleNeedsTalkingGenerationsDoorsCenturyPaintingProtectPaintProfitHousingBiasedGasolineProactiveRevolvingRevolving Doors Author:Jill Stein