“When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.” ProcessPaintingPatternsAbstractRealisticEchoesParallelsAbstract Painting Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.” HandsSeemsDesignPaintingSakePatternsOpening Author:Robert Genn
“When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.” WorldLooksLyingArtistUniverseInterestingSubjectsPossibilityColorPaintingShapesBehaviorElementsExcitingRegardWingsChaosPatternsEndlessCombinationFascinatingBalancedFeathersTextureWildlifeEcosystemsLureTrimmingEndless PossibilitiesRectangles Author:Charley Harper
“Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.” InterestingLevelsPaintingShapesRemainsPatternsAbstractAestheticDualityReally InterestingAbstract Painting Author:Francis Bacon
“Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.” PaintingPatternsNervousCanvasNervous System Book:Bacon Source: Bacon
“In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.” KnowsRealitySpacePaintingElementsPatternsDissolving Author:Francesca DiMattio
“I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.” WritingBelieveArtJobsCoursesTermActingNovelPaintingStructurePatternsNovel Writing Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley