“I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.” IfsFirstsWellsArtMadeRealShowsGuySawsMediaNew YorkPaintingTenMeatInvestorsCopImpressedEstatesChasingGraffitiPackingSold Out Author:Alec Monopoly
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski
“I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.” ThinkingShouldKindArtMadeIdeasPlayProcessPaintingReadyProjectsSculptureGallery Author:Cory Arcangel
“I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.” KnowsMadeSoundMistakePaintingRevolutionMade A MistakeI Made A Mistake Author:John Lennon
“The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsWellsHas BeensMadeI CanProblemAbleBeautifulEnjoyLosesCreativityFailingPaintingOffersProjectsCapacitySurpriseMona LisaBeautiful Paintings Author:Shahrukh Khan
“A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.” MeanMadeHandsLightFilmArtistPaintingEvidenceShadowPhotographVisualsRepresentationConvincingFlattering Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism
“DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)” MadeIdeasPaintingPhotographyNotesDictionaryDaguerreotypes Author:Gustave Flaubert
“...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
“I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.” FirstsArtMadeSchoolPaintingSummerPerformancesOilBowsAwakenedInstituteMichiganOil Painting Author:Claes Oldenburg
“Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars.” YearsMadeFeltMillionsPaintingDiedDollarsRelevantMillion Dollars Author:Peter Frampton
“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
“There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.” WorldWayLooksMayArtMadeDifferentHappensPaintingPerspectiveTypeOkayHistoricalAcceptableSanctionsHistorical Perspective Author:Julian Schnabel
“I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.” Has BeensMadeImportantDecisionSilencePaintingDrawsRadioListening To MusicImportant DecisionsPublic Radio Author:Sophie Blackall
“The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them.” KnowsWantGivingMadeI CanDoneEnoughArtistTurnsPaintingIntentionStoresBrilliantObsessedMuseumsReally GreatGarageAntiquesLockersStorageWrong TurnGarage Sale Author:Jennifer Coolidge
“I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.” MadeSpacePiecesPaintingShapesNegativeWoodsEndlessBlockInwardColumnsTurning PointsTimberSmall Pieces Author:Carl Andre
“I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff.” WayFeelsMadeBodyLanguagePaySituationEconomicPaintingModelsUncomfortableBuyingAnother WayBody LanguageBartering Author:Kehinde Wiley
“In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.” WayMadeMatterLiteratureLinesColorPaintingMusic IsNotes Author:Amos Oz