“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.” GivingStillsLinesSpacePaintingExpressionMaterialsPaintQuestsManualsStill LifeTactileCubism Author:Georges Braque
“The successful painter is continually painting still life.” StillsSuccessfulPaintingPainterStill Life Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne
“I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.” StillsImportantSeemsAbleFoundObjectsPaintingCompositionStill Life Author:Richard Diebenkorn
“I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.” StillsMatterFeelingsPaintingMusicalDrawingClarityStill Life Author:Jacob Collins
“With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.” StillsDifferentUseSeemsCausesResultsObjectsPaintingApproachFlowDirectPaintNotionDenyAccidentsDrawingStill LifeExpressionismAbstract Expressionism Author:Jackson Pollock
“My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.” StillsLightObjectsPaintingShadowStill LifeLight And Shadow Author:William C. Wright
“I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.” ArtStillsClassWorstTaughtPaintingChineseIndianDepartmentFacilityArt HistoryStill Life Author:Ad Reinhardt
“Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!” KnowsArtStillsFormPaintingGuitarFantasticGuitaristStill LifeMontgomery Author:Bill Cosby