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“I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to be no risk and once a painter gets a strategy, very little exploration. As a result, I stopped thinking about painting a long time ago. I prefer forms of art that are more market-resistant, more idea-based, more - for lack of a better word - risky.”

Thinking Littles Art Ideas Seems Form Results Risk New York Painting Strategy Painter Rely Exploration Formulas Repetition Don't Trust

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.”

Ideas Matter Inspiration Song My Own Subjects Painting Periods Studios Performing Usual Juice Subject Matter Pouring

Author:Adrian Belew

“I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way to make a painting that encapsulates it.”

Ifs Way Ideas Political Artist Painting Take Me

Author:Idris Khan

“The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.”

Ideas Beautiful Joy Found Painting Shapes

Author:Agnes Varda

“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.”

Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays

“I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if you color it in and they like it, then they want exactly those colors, even if they were just indications. You really have to do it as simple as possible so they can concentrate on the idea and composition. And then all of the energy goes into making the final piece. And the final piece can be anything - it can be a drawing, a painting, a collage - and usually, it's obvious what that should be. Usually, the idea dictates what medium you use.”

People Ifs Want Should Ideas Use Fall Energy Simple Pieces Color Painting Falling In Love Finals Committed Obvious Drawing Mediums Composition Indication Collages

Author:Dave McKean

“I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.”

Ideas Rooms Painting Eating Aim Surprise Studios Dozen Soup Sunflower

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.”

People Want Years Ideas Running Courses Painting Critics Philosopher Arguing Journalist Ran Punk Renaissance

Author:Patti Smith

“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.”

Ifs Ideas Age Doubt Century Painting Keys Structure Old Age Heroic Locked Modernity Touchstones Cezanne

Book:The Shock of the New

Source: The Shock of the New

“It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.”

Made Ideas Whole Artist Three Careers Stage Painting Elements Good Ideas Skeletons

Author:Josh Smith

“We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.”

Knows Art Ideas Form Knowing Painting Depends Everyday

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.”

Thinking Way Needs Should Art Ideas Play Artist Break Painting Pure Art Is Performances Breaking Down Sculpture Advise Pretension

Author:Wayne White

“For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.”

Ideas Together Process Interesting Struggle Painting Elements Tests Working Together Going To Work Executing

Author:Laura Owens

“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.”

Ideas Done My Own Taught Painting Shapes Decided I Realized Familiar

Book:Some Memories of Drawings

Source: Some Memories of Drawings

“You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.”

Want Ideas Painting

Author:Alex Katz

“Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.”

Art Ideas Reality Left Danger Objects Painting Art Is Dramatic Abstract Remove Semblance Indelible Abstract Art

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.”

Thinking Kind Littles Two Ideas Real Problem Interest Emotion Existence Fiction Figures Painting Grew Shapes Sight All Kinds Preserves Colour Initials Vibrations

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.”

Thinking Wells Art Ideas Would Be Form Figures Objects Painting Shapes All Things Circles Absurd Metaphysics Imagery Figurative Art

Author:Pablo Picasso

“What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.”

People Firsts Ideas Done Sides Painting Materials Finished Crafts

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.”

Writing Ideas Eye Song Silence Magic Tears Painting Wind Creating Songwriting Closest Blank Songwriters Canvas Singer Songwriters Blank Canvas Painting A Picture

Author:Rodney Atkins

“The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.”

Ideas Hands Eye Seeing Objects Painting

Author:Malcolm Morley

“Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.”

Ideas Artist Girl Felt Painting Driven Power Trip

Author:Malcolm Morley

“The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.”

Want Ideas Painting Ideals Careful Favour Idealist

Author:Agnes Martin

“I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.”

“I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.”

Thinking Ideas Painting Paint Thoughts And Ideas

Author:Chantal Joffe

“I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."”

Should Art Said Ideas Remember Artist Wish Forever Painting Should Have Iranian Exhibitions

Author:Farah Diba

“I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.”

Thinking Should Kind Art Made Ideas Play Process Painting Ready Projects Sculpture Gallery

Author:Cory Arcangel

“DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)”

Made Ideas Painting Photography Notes Dictionary Daguerreotypes

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.”

Ifs World Looks Art Made Ideas Painting Art Is Machines Traditional Painter Useless Instant Capture Gestures Execution Skillful Subversion Redefining

Author:David Byrne

“Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.”

People Ideas Different Real Form Honest Painting Communication Photograph Planes Visuals Subjective

Author:Tibor Kalman

“To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.”

Feels Ideas Painting Photography Mediums Urges Transfers

Author:John Gutmann

“All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.”

Want Years Firsts Art Ideas Earth Can Do Pay Wonder Painting Expression Gratitude Art Is Productions Seeking Makers Epiphany Framed Dens Souvenirs Expressions Of Love

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.”

Ideas Accepting Painting Paper Cake Zen Proverb Zen Like

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.”

Ideas Painting

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.”

Thinking World Ideas Reason Painting Conscious Paint Painter No Idea

Author:Jasper Johns

“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!”

“Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a painting, or a bookcase - to watch something go from an idea to a creation is pretty much where it's at for me.”

Ideas Character Film Watches Creativity Pieces Creation Painting Creating Things I Love Short Films Bookcases Creating Things

Author:Eric Lange

“The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.”

Kind Long Ideas Space Interesting Objects Painting Wall Over It Expanding Ceilings Space Between Interesting Ideas

Author:Robert Barry

“Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.”

May Ideas Jobs Individual Grows Painting Starting Abstract Propositions Starting Point

Author:Nigel Cooke

“That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.”

Ideas Shows Together Figures Painting Wall Paint Manage Colour Working Together Gallery Renaissance Whitechapel

Author:Nan Goldin

“Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.”

Ideas Use Painting

Author:Frank Gehry

“Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living with - imagine if this were sitting in your living room for 15 years. You'd probably understand the contours of it.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills Ideas Differences Rooms Imagine Painting Sitting Living Room

Author:Kehinde Wiley

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