“I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.” IfsLooksIdeasHelpingUseSituationPaintingDoctorsGallery Author:Lucian Freud
“Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.” SituationPaintingTasksCurrentsAccomplishExpensiveSustenanceDemonstratingCurrent Situation Book:Asger Jorn Source: Asger Jorn
“My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.” ThinkingInterestSituationPaintingCuriousFilmmakerDocumentaries Author:Jamie Wyeth
“In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.” YearsFirstsHas BeensIdeasLastsResponsibilitySituationPaintingReflectionTasksTwentiesCurrentsAccomplishIntimateExpensiveArticlesJournalHomageSustenanceRenderingDemonstratingSofasBanalityCurrent Situation Author:Asger Jorn
“Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.” NeedsStrongQualitySituationGreaterExamplePaintingProductsAmountLosingAvailableCustomersApartmentIncentivesShortageSellersLandlordTenantsVacancyRent Control Author:Thomas Sowell
“You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.” WayTryingSometimesEyeMemoriesSituationPracticeMinesPaintingCathartic Author:Jose Parla
“I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."” WantLooksLittlesArtBodyKidsWantedFacesCoursesLanguagePayAttentionSituationClearPaintingBedConversationTiredPay AttentionLittle KidPostureBody LanguageArt History Author:Mallory Ortberg
“Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.” NationsRaceSituationClassParticularPaintingGenderSexuality Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff.” WayFeelsMadeBodyLanguagePaySituationEconomicPaintingModelsUncomfortableBuyingAnother WayBody LanguageBartering Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.” SituationPaintingAtmosphereMetaphysicalStaticEloquent Author:Domenico Gnoli