“I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.” PeopleKnowsInspirationUsedForgetKnow HowPaintingPaintUsed To BeForget Everything Author:Grandma Moses
“Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is like seeing a landscape or, better, a richly realized painting of a landscape dotted with figures. But that would leave out their music, which would be a loss. This is a wise and graceful book by a well-traveled woman who knows how to confront deep feeling and frame it to make it all the more intense.” KnowsWorldHumansWellsBookFeelingsWould BeEyeReadingNaturalLossKnow HowWiseSeeingFiguresPaintingArgumentWinterIntenseLandscapeSensitiveTraveledNatural WorldLyricalDeep Feeling Author:Rosellen Brown
“The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.” KnowsWayI CanDoneProblemFormKnow HowAirFiguresPaintingStandardsMatisse Author:Susan Rothenberg
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king” KnowsMenWayWantLooksIdeasCountryRunningPastHouseKnow HowGenerationsPaintingRevolutionKingsGardenArmyFactoriesRegimesEstatesPointingMistressSouvenirsCountry Houses Author:Peter Weiss
“You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.” KnowsKnow HowParticularPaintingPaintSpotsExhaustedFussy Author:Arshile Gorky
“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.” IfsKnowsWellsProblemArtistBeliefStrongKnow HowGroupsStylePaintingSkillsDrawsFunctionDrawingPainterAbstractMusclesGroundedSculptureAnatomyBiased Author:Guity Novin
“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.” KnowsRealityPainSufferingTurnsGriefKnow HowTaughtPaintingSceneExperienceCourtEdgesMoodShallowCounterfeit Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.” KnowsWayKnow HowPaintingPaintAliensShockedFunk Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.” KnowsArtKnow HowPaintingPaintPainterFine ArtsFamous ArtistFine ArtistsPainting ArtPainting And Art Author:Francis Bacon
“You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.” IfsKnowsWantKnow HowPaintingAccidentsRepresentationAccuracy Author:Francis Bacon
“Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.” KnowsSometimesKnow HowPaintingGood ThingsTeethGiantsGet AwayDrooling Author:Ursula Vernon
“I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.” KnowsKnow HowPaintingMediumsInadequate Author:Domenico Gnoli