“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksMeanFeelingsEyeThreeLiteratureFeltPaintingFindingsHundredYears AgoSpotsIslandsSandClueFootprintDesertedIndescribableCandlelightDeserted IslandFootprints In The Sand Book:Losing Julia Source: Losing Julia
“The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.” WayGuyRoomsPaintingSpotsProcrastinationBlankCanvasBlank Canvas Author:Damien Hirst
“It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.” FirstsLongImportantHardSimpleStudyStudentsPaintingRelationFundamentalsImportant ThingsSpotsRealization Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne
“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.” MindDoneFactsArtistWhitePaintingPureTraditionRootsEmptyMethodEmbraceStartingFlyingSpotsEmptinessRealisingStrokesBrushesPenetrateSpontaneityApparitions Author:Antoni Tapies
“The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.” PaintingSpots Book:On the Way to Work Source: On the Way to Work
“You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.” KnowsKnow HowParticularPaintingPaintSpotsExhaustedFussy Author:Arshile Gorky
“I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.” IfsSeemsEyeFeetMovementParticularPaintingWallFinishedSpotsThirtyCanvasResponding Author:William Baziotes
“Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.” IfsWorldWantNeedsGivingWholeLightTurnsPaintingPhotographyCamerasErrorsWhole WorldSpotsBlur Author:Miroslav Tichy
“For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.” LooksKindMeanArtMadeMomentsPaintingSeriousArt IsTheaterSeriesEndlessSpotsThat MomentSpotlightImplied Author:Damien Hirst