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“I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.”

Stills Movement Painting Illusion Exciting Tricks Fixed

Author:Cecily Brown

“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.”

Way Writing School Artist Language Movement Painting Poet Novelists Irritating Appreciative Allegory

Author:A. S. Byatt

“In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.”

Ifs Values Space Figures Movement Painting Source Type Sole Principal Composition Enchantment Source Of Life Tactile Figure Painting

Author:Bernard Berenson

“When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.”

Way Space Movement Objects Painting Closest Fragments Shattered Fragmentation

Author:Georges Braque

“I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.”

Believe Art Next Laughing Century Movement Students Painting Honestly Abstract Plastic Abstract Art Regression

Author:Richard Schmid

“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.”

Mind Real States Body Moving Given Pieces Movement Painting Quiet Horse Instant State Of Mind Gestures

Author:Deborah Butterfield

“Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes.”

Thinking Way I Can Helping Bits Movement Painting Loud Strokes

Author:Laura Harris

“What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.”

Stories Seems Liberty Subjects Movement Painting Flower Importance Paint Significant

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.”

Giving Art Hands Faces Tree Movement Color Painting Fine Shadow Paint Lovely Painter Texture Fine Arts Fixing Reacting Unnoticed Lovely Things Antenna

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.”

Made Body Records Fronts Movement Painting Paint Casts Painter Sat Delicate Gestures Canvas Portraits Tense

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.”

Eye Movement Painting

Author:Guido Molinari

“I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.”

Ifs Seems Eye Feet Movement Particular Painting Wall Finished Spots Thirty Canvas Responding

Author:William Baziotes

“What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.”

Giving Littles Form Interest Movement Painting Invisible Cosmic Fleeting Fragments Elusive Suspended

Author:James Nares

“With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.”

Doe Art Body Moving Alive Blood Movement Color Painting Variety Works Of Art

Author:Joseph Raffael

“I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.”

Thinking Years Important Play Film Wish Doubt Influence Movement Painting Cinema No Doubt Editing Sculpture

Author:Martin Scorsese

“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”

Mean Art Seems Movement Painting Ideals Deny Contemporary Conception Trends Ethos

Author:Edward Hopper

“When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.”

Novel Modern Honesty Movement Painting Notion Starting Enormous Painter Distinguished Playwright Bourgeois Baudelaire

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.”

“Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.”

Form Darkness Movement Color Painting Ten Concerned Substance Brightness Remoteness

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.”