Best painting & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.”

Feels Problem Stuff Painting Plenty Tea Dissidents

Author:China Mieville

“Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.”

Kind Long Problem Painting Argument Unity Conception Propositions Unfolding

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.”

Has Beens Problem Turns Painting Structure Abstract Permission No Problem

Author:Robert Motherwell

“I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.”

Trying Problem Painting Opposites Structure Symbolic

Book:Robert Motherwell

Source: Robert Motherwell

“Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.”

Problem Painting No Problem

Author:Jackson Pollock

“I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.”

Problem Figures Color Painting Ordinary Structure Traditional Landscape Distinction Lighting Figure Painting

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.”

Sometimes Helping Problem Painting Solve

Author:Mary Beth McKenzie

“My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.”

Problem Found Painting Paint Dirt

Author:Robert Gober

“The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.”

Knows Way I Can Done Problem Form Know How Air Figures Painting Standards Matisse

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.”

Thinking Kind Art Important Hard Problem Happens Language Answers Painting Paint Historian Art History Important Questions

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.”

Knows Firsts Two Ideas Problem Together Order Subjects Painting Finished Familiar Recognition Evoke Finished Work

Author:Keith Crown

“The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.”

Ifs Ideas Country Facts Problem Seems Painting Mathematics Independent Solve Physics Contemporary Absurd Isolated Qualified

Book:Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956

Source: Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956

“Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.”

Thinking Way Helping Problem Used Known Painting Expression Solutions Negative Intention Surface Spokes Expressive Neutrality

Author:Jasper Johns

“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”

Stills Ends Problem Artist Space Creativity Inspire Painting Source West Curiosity East Painter Plenty Unexplored

Author:Guity Novin

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

“In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.”

Problem Universe Painting Masters Circles Brushes

Author:Mike Todd, Jr.

“When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.”

Knows Way Shows Problem Waiting Painting Solutions Patience One Way Invites Muse Crops

Author:Carole Katchen

“Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.”

Way Writing Problem Artist Talent Painting Solutions Piano Problems And Solutions

Author:William Zinsser

“Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.”

Moments Problem Creative Painting Pure Music Is Bliss Problem Solving Puzzles Intricate

Author:Brandon Boyd

“To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.”

Problem Turns Literature Painting Poet Painter Discussion

Author:Wallace Stevens

“As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.”

Thinking Children Problem Lying Artist House Growing Up Records Growing Painting Products Solve Finished Visible Admiration Exposed Definite Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.”

Thinking Kind Littles Two Ideas Real Problem Interest Emotion Existence Fiction Figures Painting Grew Shapes Sight All Kinds Preserves Colour Initials Vibrations

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.”

People Ifs World Firsts Wells Has Beens Made I Can Problem Able Beautiful Enjoy Loses Creativity Failing Painting Offers Projects Capacity Surprise Mona Lisa Beautiful Paintings

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.”

Art Problem Eye Film Cases Special Painting Pride Photography Bases Cameras Video Mediums Dominant Extensions Nineteen Verdict Withered Pictorial Exemption

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“I'm very proud of my skin and my face, and I have no problem not wearing makeup. I don't wear makeup because I feel like I need to cover myself up or because I don't feel confident. I wear makeup because it's fun; it's like painting on my face.”

Needs Feels Problem Faces Fun Painting Proud Skins Makeup No Problem Wearing Makeup

Author:Zendaya

“I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.”

Problem Painting Western

Author:Kehinde Wiley

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