“I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.” GivingWritingBookShowsUsedPaintingSeriousBandShotsDecidedAlbumsQuittingMy TimeAbandonSplitsGalleryWriting Music Author:Isaac Marion
“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!” TwoWarTogetherFilmBitsPaintingPhotographyShotsPhotographerPhotographIraqNewspapersExpertsChemicalsEditingIraq WarCrumbling Author:David Hockney
“Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.” StillsSelfLightHousePowerfulPaintingShotsSightMirrorsVariousBedroomPortraitsBathroomLitCatchingBulbsLight BulbSelf PortraitMorbidity Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon
“To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.” InspirationMotivationSeaPaintingShotsNosesElectricityBarrelsLandingRiflesPowderBaroque Author:Wade Davis
“I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot of pictures. They actually came to my house and shot me painting my toenails and doing dishes. But I never really do the dishes.” StoriesHouseFunInterestingPaintingShotsBackgroundsDishesInteresting StoriesToenails Author:Carmen Electra