“Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.” MeanArtForcePaintingMoralityContraryCharmPrimitiveExtensionsDecadence Book:Georges Braque Source: Georges Braque
“In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.” WayMeanSimplePaintingExpressionWinePrimitiveVocabularyExpressive Author:Robert Motherwell
“When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.” LooksChildrenLittlesArtFacesPaintingSceneAccomplishedPrimitiveCavesArt HistoryScribbles Author:Werner Herzog
“People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.” PeopleWayLooksSeemsTechnologyPaintingPrimitiveMachineryIntricate Author:Robyn Hitchcock