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“Painting is a state of being.”

States Painting

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.”

States Happens Certain Painting Evidence Remains

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.”

Years Has Beens States Facts Today Lasts Five Painting Painter Prize Turner Curator

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.”

Should States Painting Battle Weapons Prepared Preparation Be Prepared Brushes Gears Readiness

Author:Richard Schmid

“The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.”

Art States Alive Painting Art Is Miracle Sacred Constant Visuals Renewal Visual Art Exaltation

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.”

Mind Real States Body Moving Given Pieces Movement Painting Quiet Horse Instant State Of Mind Gestures

Author:Deborah Butterfield

“The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.”

States Lines Half Cutting Painting Skins Blind Paint Dozen Furry Charcoal

Author:Andrew Forge

“The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely”

States Painting Contemplating Halfway Arriving

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.”

Thinking States Painting Confidence

Author:Roger de Grey

“In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.”

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Art Said States Building Painting Products Finals Definitions Valuable Finished Preserves Chairs Works Of Art State Of Mind Best Work Roger

Author:Alistair Cooke

“There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.”

Want Trying Looks States Moving Desire Interesting Gone Objects Painting Like You Ego Concepts Museums Aesthetic Live Your Life Observers Harmonious

Author:Zack Snyder