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“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.”

Ifs Art Challenges Five Painting Art Is Down And Frustration Frustrated Frustrating

Author:Robert Bateman

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Time Lost Half Painting Awful Leonardo Mona 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.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!”

Ifs Want Writing Art Millions Produce Painting Materials Raises Dollars Pursue My Time Sculpture Million Dollars Motion Pictures

Author:Orson Welles

“I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.”

People Ifs Men Way Made I Can Soul Done Today Order Found Imagine Particular Painting Drawing Painter Vow Solemn Bishops Cheated Purgatory

Author:Artemisia Gentileschi

“Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting then it must be serious. I think Picasso can be hilarious, to name one example.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Names Example Painting Serious Comfortable Sense Of Humor

Author:Joe Bradley

“I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Motivation Fall Easy Painting Abstract Abstraction Abstract Painting Pastiche

Author:Joe Bradley

“Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Audience Painting Personality Versions Painter Sincere Ironic Drag Earnest Presenting Holistic

Author:Joe Bradley

“The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.”

Ifs Art Issues Painting Easier Ten Hundred Absolutely Nothing

Author:Joe Bradley

“When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.”

Ifs Eye Rooms Effects Television Painting Bars Settling

Author:Joe Bradley

“All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Form Given Imagination Mistake Painting Concepts Permanent

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.”

Ifs Way Kind Energy Effort Painting Exciting Get Up Cents Finishing

Author:Burton Silverman

“In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real.”

Ifs Way May I Can Real Waiting Vision Darkness Havens Painting Studios Bedroom

Author:Jules Olitski

“If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.”

Ifs Trying Humans Has Beens Feelings Lines Break Objects Painting Broken Elements Connections Strings Abstraction Unbroken Kites

Author:Wu Guanzhong

“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?”

Ifs Long Art Stuff Forget Company Successful Records Four Painting Equal Lawyer Forget It Gallery Record Companies Patron Leonardo Publicists

Author:Debbie Harry

“If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.”

People Ifs Enough Remember Asks Emotional Painting Elements Photograph Shakes Description Accurate Viewers Intertwined

Author:Luc Tuymans

“I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.”

Ifs Taken Painting Breasts

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.”

Ifs Knows May Play Beautiful Interesting Nice Color Painting Red Blue Drawing Very Interesting Very Nice Beautiful Paintings

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.”

Ifs Trying Form Used Black White Painting Supreme Artistic Tone Colour Dimensions Black And White Reign Artistic Life

Author:David Luiz

“If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.”

Ifs Giving Ends Might Painting Giving Up Keep Going Don't Give Up Follow Through

Author:Andrew McDermott

“If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.”

Ifs Artist Painting Sculpture Inexperience

Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.”

Ifs Feelings Bigs Painting

Author:James Rosenquist

“Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.”

Ifs Wells May Art Spiritual Artist Quality Painting Art Is Depth Insight Drunk Guarantees

Author:Millard Sheets

“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.”

Ifs Important Seems Artist Century Emotional Painting Importance Contact

Author:James Elkins

“For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.”

Ifs Long Enough Jobs Goal Streets Painting Long Time Sells Selling Saving Savings Part Time Part Time Jobs

Author:Janet Fish

“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.”

People Ifs Want Years I Can Courses Can Do Compassion Painting Communication Laughter Hundred And Love Paint Colour Making People Happy

Author:Norval Morrisseau

“The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.”

People Ifs Way Needs May Artist Fantasy Wonderful Painting Passionate Reactions Mystical Weaving Exclamation Chiaroscuro

Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.”

Ifs Way Want I Can Enough Painting Constant Another Way Let It Go

Author:Jamie Wyeth

“Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.”

Ifs Knows Trying I Can Might Form Process Behinds Painting I've Learned Being Afraid Diving

Author:Lori Goldstein

“If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.”

Ifs Painting If I Could One More Day

Author:Hokusai

“If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.”

Ifs Art Action Form Environment Painting Art Is Works Of Art Blueprints New Environment

Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.”

“I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.”

Ifs Looks My Own Rooms Deals Painting Draws Window Paint Curtains

Book:Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Source: Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne

“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.”

Ifs Ideas Self Painting Needed Ego Sake Self Realization Realization Stem

Author:Joseph Beuys

“I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Particular Painting Messages Albums Aggression Just Listen

Author:Marilyn Manson

“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.”

Ifs Giving Long I Can Different Left Black Rooms Acting Stage Color Painting Directors Red Green Paint Metaphor Brown Editing Really Great Purple Acting In Movies Red And Black

Author:Scott Glenn

“The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.”

Ifs Ideas Country Facts Problem Seems Painting Mathematics Independent Solve Physics Contemporary Absurd Isolated Qualified

Book:Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956

Source: Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Happens Half Painting Painter Bother Painting A Picture

Author:Lucian Freud

“Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.”

Ifs Mind Doe Purpose Pieces Achieve Painting Exercise Elements Crosses Abstract Thread Uniforms Fabric Representation Lacking Incomplete Complementary

Author:Juan Gris

“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

People Ifs Knows Humans May Whole My Own Conditions Loneliness Painting Communication Reflection Human Condition Lack Of Communication

Author:Edward Hopper

“I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.”

Ifs Thinking Trouble Painting

Book:Lee Krasner

Source: Lee Krasner

“I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Has Beens Interest Challenges My Own Break Conditions Media Painting Size Scales Mediums

Author:Lee Krasner

“If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.”

Ifs Color Painting Details Patches

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.”

Ifs Seems Eye Feet Movement Particular Painting Wall Finished Spots Thirty Canvas Responding

Author:William Baziotes

“If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.”

Ifs Thinking Want Past Joy Study Painting Museums

Author:Nelson Shanks

“I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.”

Ifs Thinking Wise Painting Sake Impulse

Author:Scott Kahn

“There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Able Wish Painting Please Give Me Asking

Author:Norbert Bisky

“In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.”

Ifs Way Bigs Seems Answers Painting Addresses Hopeless Big Questions

Author:Sam Messer

“Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.”

People Ifs Dream Body Artist Opportunity Imagine Painting Eating Introducing

Author:Ferran Adria

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