“In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.” FormNaturalPaintingSceneHarmonyUnitySakePainterLandscapeColourExaggeratedPrevailing Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.” KindArtPaintingTasteSakeContraryDisregard Author:Walter J. Phillips
“An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.” HandsSeemsDesignPaintingSakePatternsOpening Author:Robert Genn
“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.” ThinkingMeanFormSoundColorPaintingInstrumentsSakeDrawingExcitementPalette Author:John French Sloan
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.” IfsIdeasSelfPaintingNeededEgoSakeSelf RealizationRealizationStem Author:Joseph Beuys
“I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.” IfsThinkingWisePaintingSakeImpulse Author:Scott Kahn
“Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!” PeopleIfsKnowsArtSaidRealFeelingsArtistCareersCreativePaintingPaintSakeEstablishmentCanvasThey SaidSentimentalInnovativeBourgeoisHideousGrotesqueCreative WorkBrandedIllustratorsReal ArtistsPainting A Picture Author:Bill Bonner
“Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.” WritingDoneProcessPaintingSakeVisualsJournalJournal Writing Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous