“Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.” DifficultPaintingDependsIntentionSpeedCertainty Author:Walter J. Phillips
“When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.” ThinkingWorldLittlesRealAirCarTelevisionPaintingActivityPaintSpeedAbsurdGloriousReal WorldSquaresSunlightCanvasAnimationMotorFresh AirHigh SpeedWorlds ApartMotor Cars Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change.” MayAmericaArtistPaintingSpeedPatriotismRestlessnessInventiveness Author:Arthur Dove
“The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter.” SaidMatterFacesCertainMemoriesPaintingMaterialsFaultsPaintSpeedResistanceInterpretationCaptureGesturesBrushesMindlessInsistence Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.” HumansStillsMovingCenturyPaintingWalkingActivitySpeedTake Time20th CenturyHuman ActivityWrappingWrapping Up Author:Joe Bradley
“You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.” HappenedProducePaintingDiscoverySpeedAbstractExpressionismAbstract Expressionism Author:Michael Snow