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“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.”

Way Ideas Names Black White Talking Support Color Painting Perspective Proportion Black And White Worth It Chiaroscuro

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.”

Names Language Information Painting Aliens Interfere Emergence Factual

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.”

Thinking Might Names Painting Evening Signatures Signing Cheques

Author:Robert Genn

“Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a painting then it must be serious. I think Picasso can be hilarious, to name one example.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Names Example Painting Serious Comfortable Sense Of Humor

Author:Joe Bradley

“Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.”

Knows Needs Years Names Five Subjects Painting Photography Twenties Thirty Twenty Five

Book:William Wegman: Funney/strange

Source: William Wegman: Funney/strange

“I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.”

Able Names Painting Blessing Signatures

Author:Margaret Keane

“At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.”

Thinking Years Art Facts Found Names Objects Painting Decided Brave Museums Prehistoric

Author:Pierre Soulages

“I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.”

Art Humor Funny Names Boys Fire Painting Museums Kitten

Author:Steven Wright

“I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.”

People Art Made Hate Names Opinion Painting Hated

Author:Josh Smith

“I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, "What do you mean? It's a flower!" But if you make a painting of your name and somebody says they hate it, it's like, "Well, why would you like a painting of my name anyway?"”

Ifs Wells Mean Made Hate Names Painting Flower

Author:Josh Smith

“I think the worst lie I ever told was, because my last name is Goth, I used to tell kids at school that I used to be related to 'Van Gogh' and when I turned 18, I would inherit all the fortune from the sunflower painting.”

Thinking Kids School Lasts Used Lying Names Worst Painting Fortune Used To Be Related Vans Goth Sunflower

Author:Mia Goth