“I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.” PeopleThinkingArtImportantEndsPaintingArt IsImportanceThe End Of The DayLooking BackLooking Forward Author:Damien Hirst
“No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.” FeelsArtRealFormLanguageUnderstandingSubjectsPaintingDependsImportancePictorial Book:A Roger Fry Reader Source: A Roger Fry Reader
“I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.” PeopleFirstsHomeRunningFoundFirePaintingImportanceTestament Author:Robert Genn
“Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.” GivingImaginationFocusPaintingAreasImportanceLeavingFinished Author:Mary Beth McKenzie
“It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.” MindImportantEyeMovingPaintingImportance Book:The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 Source: The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009
“What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.” StoriesSeemsLibertySubjectsMovementPaintingFlowerImportancePaintSignificant Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“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.” IfsImportantSeemsArtistCenturyEmotionalPaintingImportanceContact Author:James Elkins
“In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure or color can create a new painting and it doesn't really matter if a subject is revisited by an artist repeatedly. With enough time in between paintings, an artist can always bring to it something new.” IfsMatterEnoughArtistSubjectsFiguresColorPaintingImportanceSomething NewEnough Time Author:Guity Novin
“A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.” DoeHappensOrderPaintingElementsMessagesImportanceAccidents Author:Mike Svob
“I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.” WantGivingPastPaintingMastersDeserveBuiltRootsImportanceIncludingSurfaceAbandonLayersCanvasTransparentMy Past Author:Jose Parla