“I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.” RealHandsArtistAirPaintingBecomingStudiosArchitecturePainterLakesRomeMedievalRenaissanceTubesFooled Author:Mark Kostabi
“Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.” ArtArtistPaintingMastersAreasMethodTechniqueContemporaryEaseAbstractCompetenceRenaissanceAbstract Painting Author:Igor Babailov
“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.” ShouldArtHardWholeFormForceMistakeTakenFourCenturyObjectsPaintingPerspectiveTraditionCreditDisappearRenaissanceImposingBeholderGhastlyRedressCezanne Author:Georges Braque
“I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.” IfsWantI CanIdeasDifferentCareersColorPaintingCanvasRenaissanceDifferent Colors Author:Nolan Gerard Funk
“I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.” PeopleWantYearsIdeasRunningCoursesPaintingCriticsPhilosopherArguingJournalistRanPunkRenaissance Author:Patti Smith
“If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.” IfsAbleHouseMillionsPaintingScreensPresidentialSunsetGuestsAirplanePortraitsStampsRenaissanceReproductionSkiersPainting A Picture Author:Bill Gates
“I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.” ThinkingFeelsImportantShowsWould BeModernFiguresPaintingSingingVersionsRenaissanceKim Author:Kanye West
“The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.” LooksArtChurchPaintingSaintObsessedRenaissanceRenaissance Art Author:Nan Goldin
“That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.” IdeasShowsTogetherFiguresPaintingWallPaintManageColourWorking TogetherGalleryRenaissanceWhitechapel Author:Nan Goldin