“What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.” PeopleKnowsNeedsGivingArtistPiecesMissingPaintingStrategySculptureBusiness StrategyBest BusinessCatering Author:Daniel H. Pink
“What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss - and sometimes hit.” WayArtSometimesFeelingsSpaceMissingPaintingFinding YourselfReach OutAscendancy Author:Milton Resnick
“Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing . . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.” ThinkingWayMindLittlesHappensSawsMissingPaintingLeavingDetailsShockingRealist Author:Alex Katz
“There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he was making them during some of the most ominous massacres in Tasmania. Forrest was recording history but missing the human story.” HumansStoriesBigsDarkInterestingMissingPaintingLandscapeDramaticInteresting ThingsGloomyMassacresOminousTasmania Author:Ben Quilty