“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.” ThinkingArtSchoolIndividualPaintingFinishedPainterRealisingLayersOften IsArt School Author:Chris Ofili
“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.” HumansLooksPersonsStillsCharacterArtistOrderIndividualMemoriesSimpleBehindsEffectsPaintingDependsResponseWho We AreSimple Truths Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting
“Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.” ArtArtistIndividualClassPaintingWorks Of ArtUniquenessPredictionsSculpture Author:Ben Shahn
“In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.” IndividualInterestImaginationNaturalPaintingAppealsFeaturesCollectivesSpheresInvestigationVividTruthfulness Author:David Hume
“In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.” TryingFormIndividualVoiceDestinyProgressPaintingIndependentCompositionUncertainIndependent Life Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.” BookIdeasIndividualInterestTalentPaintingContribution Book:Strong opinions Source: Strong opinions
“The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.” WorldLoveLifeGivingDeathIndividualPaintingDrinkingOneselfImprovementPainterLive LifeGood LifeIndividual LifeLive Life Happy Author:Odd Nerdrum
“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.” MayIdeasJobsIndividualGrowsPaintingStartingAbstractPropositionsStarting Point Author:Nigel Cooke
“I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.” IndividualDifficultFocusFrontsPaintingIsolatedSculptureIndividual Work Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.” LooksIndividualWonderObjectsColorPaintingSurfaceTexture Author:Mordicai Gerstein