“It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.” MenWellsYoungPaintingModelsDrawsYoung ManOver ItCurtains Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.” FeelsBelieveHumansEnvironmentConditionsPaintingPaintIllnessOver ItSelf DevelopmentUnchangeable Author:Esther Hicks
“If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.” IfsThinkingWayWantWellsLittlesDifferentSongEasySleepCuttingPaintingFindingsLaborEarsDrinkingPhonesBeerDifferent WaysOver ItSpellsRudeFew WordsThanklessAntenna Author:Tom Waits
“The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.” FeelsTryingI CanHardSpiritPaintingMarkOver It Author:Danny Fox
“The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.” KindLongIdeasSpaceInterestingObjectsPaintingWallOver ItExpandingCeilingsSpace BetweenInteresting Ideas Author:Robert Barry