“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.” LastsEasyLinesForeverPaintingPaperDrawingBagsPlasticCheaperPlastic Bags Author:Marlene Dumas
“I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.” BelieveArtNextLaughingCenturyMovementStudentsPaintingHonestlyAbstractPlasticAbstract ArtRegression Author:Richard Schmid
“Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged on a particular work. And because we are more interested in plastic matters than we are in matters of words, once can begin a painting and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all. All pictures are full of association.” PeopleMatterCertainClearParticularPaintingPaintTitlesEngagedAssociationPlasticRecollection Author:William Baziotes
“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.” PeopleWantKindArtThreeLinesLevelsAwarenessPaintingAmbitionUnderstoodPraiseCriticsBurningConfusedSignificancePlasticFluidModernismPainting A Picture Author:Arnold Friberg
“Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.” LightFormNaturalObjectsPaintingPhotographyDrawingAgentsPlasticIndispensableModeling Book:A guide to better photography Source: A guide to better photography
“In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.” MindFirstsArtIdeasMatterStoriesEnergyCausesActingPaintingCreatingWorks Of ArtConstructionAssociationPlasticSpectatorsStimulusDeparture Book:Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice Source: Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice
“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.” ArtMomentsRealityActionUniverseCoursesPaintingDramaPureConcernedDestructionDramaticConsiderationPlasticSplitsPrecedence Author:Francoise Gilot
“Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.” KindDiesHouseFirePaintingLateApproachShamePlasticSurgeryPlastic Surgery Author:Dana Gould