“Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.” KindSometimesFashionPaintingGoes OnRealisticRealismAbstraction Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!” FeelsWeekPaintingGoes OnMoodBinge Author:Edward Hopper
“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.” WayValuesEnemyPiecesCreationPaintingGoes OnGardenPassingPassingsUselessSculptureGardenerPartingTime PassingSlipperyTime PassesTime Goes OnCountdown Book:My Garden (Book) Source: My Garden (Book)
“One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.” WorldReasonWantedActorsDealsStagePaintingGoes OnMusicianPerformancesBiggerMovedProductionsAround The World Author:Jared Leto
“But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.” FeelsArtSelfReasonArtistPaintingJudgingGoes OnProveCourtCriticalDisappearTrialsNo ReasonCanvasGlancesJuryProve ItProsecutor Author:Philip Guston
“It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done - it's taken things from the world and said, Look how much more real this is now.” PeopleWorldWellsLooksSaidRealDoneTakenPaintingGoes OnInternet Author:Margaux Williamson
“What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.” NeedsFeelsMindFactsFeelingsAliveFailingLonelinessFieldsPaintingGoes OnVictoryDiseaseGainsHorribleShyGoing OutOverwhelmedTime Goes On Book:Van Gogh, letters from Provence Source: Van Gogh, letters from Provence
“Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.” PeoplePaintingGoes OnInstallation Author:Michael Craig-Martin