“Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.” ShouldMayLastsOrderPaintingElementsIntroducingLast TimeFlexibilityFlexible Author:Richard Schmid
“In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?” PeopleKindTakenPaintingPhotographBusyErasDaily LifeMuseumsFrankIntroducingDisdainCuratorCartierHenri Cartier Bresson Author:Burton Silverman
“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.” PeopleIfsDreamBodyArtistOpportunityImaginePaintingEatingIntroducing Author:Ferran Adria
“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.” MenSelfDesireConsciousnessHonestPaintingEgoDegreesShadowPaintDramaticArtificialIntroducingPortraitsHighlightsSelf ConsciousnessSelf Portrait Author:W. H. Auden
“It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings. So to actually introduce something evil or bad was quite hard for me.” WorldHardMovingEvilResponsibilityPaintingMoving ForwardIntroducingTaking Responsibility Author:Brian Froud