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“The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.”

Facts Interesting Effects Painting Essentials Notes Simplicity Studios Pencils Most Interesting Elimination

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.”

Art Left Speak Silence Painting Art Is Notes Active Architecture Void Utterance Left Out Silence Speaks

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.”

Painting Notes Saxophone

Author:Julian Schnabel

“DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)”

Made Ideas Painting Photography Notes Dictionary Daguerreotypes

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.”

Way Made Matter Literature Lines Color Painting Music Is Notes

Author:Amos Oz