“I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.” KnownPaintingModelsPainterGood Work Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.” ArtKnownPaintingWindowFinishedModernism Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“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
“I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.” YearsWellsChildrenShowsRunningHurtKnownFivePaintingDaughterTreatsActressesOpeningImpulseFive YearsInsultComplimentSwimmingPoolImpressedWell KnownDivingFive Year OldsSwimming Pool Author:James Nares
“It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.” NeedsTwoDoneKnownPaintingConceptsBlankCanvasBlank Canvas Author:Steve Martin
“[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.” YoungKnownChangedStrangePaintingChanged My Life Author:Agnes Varda
“My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.” YearsWellsDoeHas BeensArtBookDifferentArtistFatherKnownGrowing UpGrowingEffectsPaintingPaintWell Known Author:John Dyer
“I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.” WayFeelsCertainKnownPaintingPaintStoresThriftIsms Author:Jim Shaw
“There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.” WellsMadeBlackDifferencesKnownPaintingWell KnownNotorious Author:Frank Stella
“In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.” PeopleThinkingWellsSometimesArtistDiesKnownPaintingDiedWell Known Author:Rokia Traore