“Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.” DifficultPaintingDependsIntentionSpeedCertainty Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.” ThinkingWayHelpingProblemUsedKnownPaintingExpressionSolutionsNegativeIntentionSurfaceSpokesExpressiveNeutrality Author:Jasper Johns
“Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.” RealHelpingShowsPleasurePaintingAimRaisesIntentionWideColourFlattering Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.” PeopleIfsWayLittlesIdeasSometimesWholeCharacterUseInterestingCommonPaintingNormalNegativeIntentionMonstersReactionsSympatheticMonstrous Author:Chris Mars
“When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.” ActionCoursesProducePaintingPoetIntentionEndeavour Author:Pablo Picasso
“The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them.” KnowsWantGivingMadeI CanDoneEnoughArtistTurnsPaintingIntentionStoresBrilliantObsessedMuseumsReally GreatGarageAntiquesLockersStorageWrong TurnGarage Sale Author:Jennifer Coolidge
“[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.” PeopleIfsWantCoursesInterestMy OwnViewsObjectsPaintingIntentionPoint Of View Author:Michael Craig-Martin