“The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.” ArtEndsEducationTalentPaintingMachinesFedsFactoriesAcademy Author:Edvard Munch
“I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?” MenMeanDoeHe ManPaintingSolutionsMachinesMethodDepthScreensArticlesSilkCopyingAudacious Author:Andy Warhol
“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.” IfsGivingMeanLittlesArtWould BeTurnsPaintingMachinesAskingAimMereSatisfiedMore TimeEnthusiasticIncompleteCollectors Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.” PeopleWayWritingDoneAbleMovingFunLinesPaintingMachinesPerformancesDance Performance Author:Jose Parla
“...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.” IfsWorldLooksArtMadeIdeasPaintingArt IsMachinesTraditionalPainterUselessInstantCaptureGesturesExecutionSkillfulSubversionRedefining Author:David Byrne