“I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.” PeopleEndsFactsStoriesFeelingsFatherPaintingPleaseLettersDiedFather DiedPlease Me Author:Andrew Wyeth
“And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.” InspirationalLightPoetryPaintingLettersWelcomeAddressesForgivenNew OrleansHurricanesSprayPorch Author:Andrea Gibson
“You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.” SchoolMotherRealizingLove YouPaintingMomLettersFingersAppreciationCardsReportsChickensPotEasterClaySantaMothers DaySanta ClausBeadsMother LoveAtticsNecklacesSchool ReportsClay Pots Author:Pam Brown
“Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper Johns was how important it is to start with a convention, how important it is to start with what everybody knows and everybody takes for granted, whether it's a number, an alphabet letter, a set of alphabet letters, a target.” KnowsWritingImportantWantedNumbersPaintingLettersYeahGrantedTargetConventionsAlphabet Author:Vito Acconci
“You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)” PeopleThinkingKnowsPaintingPhotographyLettersDespiseUnbearable Author:Marcel Duchamp
“I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.” PeopleThinkingWritingUseMy OwnPaintingLettersDrawingShockedHandwritingDrawing And Painting Author:David Shrigley