“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.” IfsLittlesArtStillsEyeYoungMotherGirlSpaceForgetAnimalSawsTeacherModernStagePaintingTablesPaintCreatorTongueRingsCleverStaringAbstractFiftyNever ForgetCoveredMuseumsPotBellsRealismBowlsVagueBrushesModernismSlapTubesWristsModern ArtInclineAbstract ArtSticking OutStaring Into Space Author:Jean Cocteau
“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.” EarthMotherBornPaintingTastePainterMilkMilieu Author:Yves Klein
“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.” LightFormMotherToo MuchPaintingDecidedEssenceValuablePassingPassingsBoatLandscapeFeaturesAnnoyingExecutionLocksCan NotRoyalAcademyBrightnessLightnessScholastics Author:John Constable
“During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair.'” SaidMotherPresidentWifeImpossiblePaintingHairPaintFormerInterviewsHobbiesPresident George W Bush Author:Jimmy Fallon
“How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.” PeopleKnowsHandsMotherFatherEmotionAttitudePaintingSonDaughterAbstractIntricateSon And DaughterPolaroids Book:At Large Source: At Large
“The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.” FeelsWellsLooksArtMadeKidsMotherStuffLove IsPaintingWallHusbandMy FriendsFolksRelatedAbstractMy HusbandOutsidersMy FriendshipAbstract ArtEbayFolk ArtPersonal StuffSurrounded By Love Author:Kathleen Hanna
“In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.” GivingMindChildrenFeelingsMotherAsksFantasyFeetPaintingCreaturesModelsIdealsPerformancesMythBreastsFulfilledNurtureTranquilBeing A MotherUnattainableRaphael Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.” SchoolMotherRealizingLove YouPaintingMomLettersFingersAppreciationCardsReportsChickensPotEasterClaySantaMothers DaySanta ClausBeadsMother LoveAtticsNecklacesSchool ReportsClay Pots Author:Pam Brown
“Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.” WellsMayArtHappensEyeAbleMotherFatherPaintingIllusionAppreciateFaultsRaisedDare Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.” MotherArtistGrowsGrowing UpPaintingNakedHouseholdSculptureTabooNudity Author:Ingrid Michaelson
“The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.” WayMotherFireSeeingPaintingNineForestsImpulseDistressDisturbedDealing With ItForest Fires Author:Joni Mitchell