“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.” MayLinesTakenPaintingLandscapeMake SenseCompositionIgnoredLandscape Painting Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.” HumansStillsI CanDifferentAgeCertainCasesPaintingSingingCapacityTraditionDancingProfessionMake SenseHuman Capacity Author:Gerhard Richter
“what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.” ThinkingWritingTryingDoeCharacterArtistOrderPaintingWasteLogicIncrediblesSeekingMake SenseDisorderThreadMarvelous Book:Conversations with Nadine Gordimer Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
“In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.” WorldWantTryingHas BeensArtIdeasFactsGivenPaintingLogicChaosMake SenseDoomedPretentious Author:Grace Hartigan
“It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.” PeopleMeanArtBookCareTodayCertainPaintingHugeTasteConversationModelsLibraryStudiosMake SenseArt HistoryHistory Books Author:Kehinde Wiley