“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.” KindLongFeelingsFormArtistGivenPiecesPaintingWindowBlueRateTeethClarityParisProportionShopsMuseumsFollowersAccurateDefiniteAcademyArdentExhibitionsWorkmenSecond RateCucumbersCubismShop Windows Author:Marc Chagall
“I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.” GonePaintingInvolvedRhythmParis Author:Patti Smith
“The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.” PeopleFirstsDifferentBigsUsedSpaceRoomsSawsNicePaintingSevenParisColourGalleryVery NiceExhibitionsDifferent Colours Author:Michael Craig-Martin