“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
“The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.” WantHumansLooksReasonViewsPaintingPaintGlassesCommandIntimacyIntimateLook UpReducing Author:Mark Rothko
“Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.” PeopleRealValuesPleasurePaintingWineGlassesSensualBottlesCategoriesStrokesCellarsReal ValueSensual PleasureDegas Author:Serena Sutcliffe
“I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.” WayCertainViewsBehindsExamplePaintingColdBuiltFilledPaintGlassesBoxesPoint Of ViewControlledHidingSuggestionsClinicals Author:Oliver Jeffers
“I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?” DoeArtistInterestPaintingPhotographerGlassesSnowPainterSandShelvesFenceSand Dunes Author:John Baldessari
“... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which it refers in a manner parallel to fingerprints or footprints or the rings of water that cold glasses leave on tables. The photograph is thus generically distinct from painting or sculpture or drawing. On the family tree of images it is closer to palm prints, death masks, the Shroud of Turin, or the tracks of gulls on beaches.” WorldRealWaterTreePaintingColdPhotographyTablesPhotographGlassesTrackConnectedDrawingRingsBeachMaskPrintPalmsSculptureParallelsTransfersFootprintFingerprintsShroudsGulls Author:Rosalind E. Krauss