“I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.” BeautifulTimeWaitingCommonPaintingSceneSucceedDrawsDetailsVeils Book:Thomas Cole Source: Thomas Cole
“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
“I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.” TryingHas BeensNightBitsPaintingSceneOilToneMistakenLighters Author:E. J. Hughes
“As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.” WayLightCoursesSunPaintingSceneCreatingDown AndWarmEveningBrushesMistFilters Author:Cory Trepanier
“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.” ShouldMadeStillsI CanFeelingsLyingMy OwnWhitePaintingSceneHorseGratefulPaintPainterInstanceTouchedStrongestAssociatesPencilsCarelessI Am GratefulBoyhoodWhite Horse Author:John Constable
“They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.” PeopleYearsNightStreetsCarPaintingSceneFilledDrawingDay And NightRestlessnessTime Of My LifeAgonizingPainting And Drawing Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBelieveHumansLooksUsedLyingImaginationHuman BeingsImagineSeaChangedPaintingSceneProjectsPhotographyCamerasPhotographerMediumsLandscapeViewersMy ImaginationBelievableNever LiePhotography Love Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.” FirstsHumansEyeStrongUnderstandingViewsPaintingDramaSceneFirst TimeReactionsBehaveEvokeHuman Eyes Author:Mike Svob
“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.” KnowsRealityPainSufferingTurnsGriefKnow HowTaughtPaintingSceneExperienceCourtEdgesMoodShallowCounterfeit Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“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
“It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.” WayDoeArtImportantHelpingActingPaintingSceneJokesEverydayBeing YourselfEveryday Life Author:Val Kilmer
“The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're setting the scene and everything. It's like you're painting a picture, so details are very important. Also, the music gotta be right. The music can really set the tone for the story and let you know what the story is gonna be about, but definitely, it's the vibe in the place where you at and the detail.” KnowsLittlesDoeImportantStoriesPaintingLike YouSceneElementsDetailsSettingSettingsToneDescribingGood StoryPainting A Picture Author:Big Boi
“Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills.” PeopleMenChildrenEyeAgeTogetherFallWealthPleasureDogFieldsBuildingPaintingSceneHorseDressesDelightAppearancePainterVarietyHillsNarrativeAbundanceDiverseUniquenessObserversMixturesComposing Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.” BookFilmCultureEffectsPaintingSceneMusicianDestructionPainterArtisticFilmmakerGiantsTapeBurnedTalibanSculptorsInfamousAfghanVandalismVcr Author:Khaled Hosseini