“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?” RealLife IsHalfPaintingCommunicationConversationSentencesFinishedReal LifeOverlapping Author:Edgar Degas
“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.” HardDarkWhiteHalfPaintingDifficultyTubes Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.” PersonsHalfPaintingInventionPortraitsOther Half Author:Francesco Clemente
“Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsTimeLostHalfPaintingAwfulLeonardoMona Lisa Author:E. J. Hughes
“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.” IfsWritingLooksMeanDoeIdeasSchoolFormCertainThreeHalfPlansDoorsPaintingExpressionModelsDrawsRemainsDrawingPainterInteriors Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.” StatesLinesHalfCuttingPaintingSkinsBlindPaintDozenFurryCharcoal Author:Andrew Forge
“Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.” FeelingsJoyFeltPleasureHalfCreativeMagicPaintingConnectionsColour Author:Sara Genn
“I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.” IfsThinkingKnowsHappensHalfPaintingPainterBotherPainting A Picture Author:Lucian Freud
“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.” ArtLyingLeftBehindsHalfGracePaintingPoetMastersActivitySoldierFinishedThinkerReplacedLeft BehindStatesmenProvincesCompletionGod's GraceGreat Poet Author:Adolf Hitler
“The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.” ArtMomentsValuesTurnsHalfPaintingIntenseIdeologyWorks Of ArtTurn-onSubservientHalf TruthSubservience Book:The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers Source: The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
“For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.” HoursHalfPaintingCanvasPreparing Author:Katherine Bernhardt
“I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsArtTwoDreamSongHalfMinesPaintingArt IsExcitingDiedVansHalf A Year Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda