“Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.” ThinkingKnowsMeanSometimesCoursesLostPainting Author:David Hockney
“Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little paintings on all the gables and everything? They have meaning, and they could do that because they know what that means, we don't necessarily know about that over here.” KnowsMeanLittlesPaintingVillageKung FuPandasKung Fu PandaDreamworks Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.” MeanHouseCreativePsychologyColorPaintingCuriousRoyalPurple Author:Paul Dano
“The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.” PeopleKnowsTryingWellsMeanArtSeemsWould BeSchoolTurnsPaintingIdealsArt School Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.” IfsTryingLooksMeanArtFactsStudyFiguresPaintingArt IsTraditionJustificationTapestryArt HistoryWeavers Author:Robert Barry
“We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.” NeedsMeanLongRunningAnimalPaintingMathematicsDistanceLong DistanceSuperfluousDistance RunningLong Distance Running Author:Freeman Dyson
“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
“I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what is the word that I'm looking for? - metaphorical language in painting, and to create something that was more indexical. And what I mean by that is that when you go to the library there's an index card that refers to a book that's actual and real in the world. So that index relates to something real.” WorldWayTryingMeanBookRealLanguagePaintingLibraryCardsRelateCrawlingMetaphoricalSomething Real Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.” BelieveMeanDesireLiteratureViewsPaintingCreaturesPoint Of ViewStorytellingFilmmakingGazingNavelNavel Gazing Author:Kehinde Wiley