“Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.” ShouldArtistGamesHeavenCommonAttitudePaintingFairsDirectGratefulForgivingCriticsDuesImpressionRemarksPseudoFair Game Author:Walter J. Phillips
“A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true.” IfsMenArtHandsHeavenMemoriesPaintingEternityDelightStealingPainterThirstPretence Author:Dacia Maraini
“A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel.” MenWorldNeedsDoeIdeasUseSpiritualCultureSpiritualityHeavenCreationPaintingLessonsFemaleCosmicVirginsClassical MusicWagnerRaphaelBrothelsSchubert Book:Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
“Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.” DifferentHomeHeavenEffortTreeHavensPaintingDevotedPortraitsResilientBounceFloraTrampolines Author:Phillip Adams
“I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.” ThinkingFirstsLooksHeavenPaintingPauses Author:Owen Wilson