Best painting & order Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.”

Humans Looks Persons Stills Character Artist Order Individual Memories Simple Behinds Effects Painting Depends Response Who We Are Simple Truths

Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.”

Ifs Feels I Can Order Forget Painting Succeed Conveying Order To Succeed

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”

Way Kind May Sometimes Dream Might Certain Order Painting Perception Perceive Subconscious Chords

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one.”

Kind Art Artist Certain Order Social Painting Depends Succeed Painful Friendly Composer Insecure Sociability Order To Succeed

Book:The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

“Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.”

Artist Order Pieces Painting Music Is Admire Chaotic Disconnected

Author:Anthony Storr

“What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.”

World Way Real Done Order Achieve Color Painting Real Life Satisfied Purity Bombs Urges Throwing Conventions Maximum Renewal Tangible Liberated

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.”

Order Courses Risk Sacrifice Painting Gains Something Better

Author:Graham Sutherland

“Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.”

Should May Lasts Order Painting Elements Introducing Last Time Flexibility Flexible

Author:Richard Schmid

“I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.”

People Ifs Men Way Made I Can Soul Done Today Order Found Imagine Particular Painting Drawing Painter Vow Solemn Bishops Cheated Purgatory

Author:Artemisia Gentileschi

“I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.”

Order Painting

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.”

Writing Order Painting Paint

Author:Sara Genn

“My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.”

Knows Firsts Two Ideas Problem Together Order Subjects Painting Finished Familiar Recognition Evoke Finished Work

Author:Keith Crown

“With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.”

“With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.”

World Doe Order Process Building Painting Photography Opposites Complexes Photographer Photograph Block Simplify Building Blocks Synthetic

Author:Stephen Shore

“what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.”

Thinking Writing Trying Doe Character Artist Order Painting Waste Logic Incredibles Seeking Make Sense Disorder Thread Marvelous

Book:Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer

“A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.”

Doe Happens Order Painting Elements Messages Importance Accidents

Author:Mike Svob

“I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”

Knows Men May Book Whole Order Brain Creativity Trouble Dangerous Painting Criticism Safety Rate Bounds Dues Better Off Calves Ticklish

Author:Herman Melville

“It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.”

People Important Order Painting Appreciate Spending End Times Spend Time Spending Time

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.”

Order Painting

Author:David Hockney

“But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.”

People World Important Body Order Memories Space White Teach Air Painting Conversation Laughter Negative Breaths Our Relationship Canvas Space Between Negative Space

Book:The Lost Wife

Source: The Lost Wife

“I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.”

Writing Persons Stories Use Song Order Acting Emotion Creative Painting Tools Communicate Writing Songs Creative Person

Author:Michael Marisi Ornstein

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