“At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.” ArtBookIdeasSeemsTogetherChallengesMillionsPaintingTraditionStudiosThese DaysLeafsArt HistoryHistory Books Author:James Dean
“I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.” PeopleEndsSufferingPaintingSolitudeStudiosLocksPrivate Life Book:Drawings Source: Drawings
“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.” ThinkingFeelsLooksLittlesHas BeensRealCountryNatureWalksRocksPaintingPaintCloudsStudiosWoodsEach DayLiving ThingsDiagrams Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.” PeopleIfsInspirationalArtWalksTeacherPaintingCriticsStudiosGhostPainter Author:Philip Guston
“In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.” MayPaintingPerfectionStudiosCompositionArrangements Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.” FactsInterestingEffectsPaintingEssentialsNotesSimplicityStudiosPencilsMost InterestingElimination Author:Walter J. Phillips
“I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.” RealHandsArtistAirPaintingBecomingStudiosArchitecturePainterLakesRomeMedievalRenaissanceTubesFooled Author:Mark Kostabi
“As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.” PersonsMadeRunningYoungPaintingMaterialsDemandStudiosFavorsFixedAddressesStabilityNo MoneySpatial Author:David Salle
“In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real.” IfsWayMayI CanRealWaitingVisionDarknessHavensPaintingStudiosBedroom Author:Jules Olitski
“Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.” MadeSpaceChangedPaintingLowsBiggerStudiosCeilingsHorizontal Author:James Rosenquist
“Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.” PeopleWayLooksStillsTogetherWatchesTeachingPaintingMastersTrainStudiosDrawingInstructionAlrightPupilsProgrammesMonasteries Author:Paul Cezanne
“I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.” LittlesMadeSaidEyeEmotionWifePaintingUnderstoodOvercomingStudiosMy WifePortraitsAffirmativePortraiture Author:Jules Breton
“My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.” ArtRoomsWatchesStudentsPaintingOfficeComfortableAreasMeetingsStudiosClientsArt Students Author:Doug Dawson
“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.” ThinkingFeltSpaceAirSpecialPaintingComfortableBuiltStudiosDecent Author:Peter Doig
“I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.” ThinkingWantHelpingPaintingStudiosPainter Author:Peter Doig
“If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.” PeopleIfsTryingHeartBigsNaturalMy OwnOne ThingPaintingInvolvedEasierProductionsWork OutStudiosChrome Author:Peter Doig
“As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.” IdeasMatterInspirationSongMy OwnSubjectsPaintingPeriodsStudiosPerformingUsualJuiceSubject MatterPouring Author:Adrian Belew
“I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.” ThinkingImportantHappensViewsAcceptingEnemyWorstPaintingJudgmentImportant ThingsFingersStudiosPoint Of ViewPassingPassingsPointingWorst EnemyAccepting YourselfPointing FingersPassing Judgment Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.” IfsArtArtistPossibilityPaintingMembersUnionsPaintStudiosArtisticOfficialsEtcPortraitsBrushesMural Author:Ilya Kabakov
“I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.” IdeasRoomsPaintingEatingAimSurpriseStudiosDozenSoupSunflower Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.” KnowsLooksLittlesBitsEnvironmentPaintingLittle BitRedBlueAddStudiosControlled Author:Zakk Wylde
“I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.” PaintingStudiosOilPainterOil Painting Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.” MenFeelsHappensEyeWalksPowerfulEnvironmentStreetsEffectsPaintingCoupleBedStudiosOilStuckGalleryHarassmentOffendersOil PaintingStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.” WantLooksPaintingWindowStudios Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.” ThinkingEndsPaintingStudiosLoose Ends Author:Stephen Beal
“Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.” IfsWayKindPaintingPerformancesStudiosTheatrical Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“Being here by the ocean in Malibu. Living in this beautiful house that we built, that took so long to build. Being in my art studio, painting. Packing my bags tomorrow to go home to Kauai where we have a house. Which all sounds very grand, and I suppose it is, in some respects, but nothing comes from nothing. It all comes from hard work.” LongArtHardHomeBeautifulHouseSoundPaintingHard WorkTomorrowOceanBuiltStudiosBagsPackingMalibu Author:Pierce Brosnan
“In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.” LongWholeUseAbleRoomsNumbersPaintingLong TimeDecidedWork OutStudiosColourIntensityVariationPalette Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.” PeopleMeanArtBookCareTodayCertainPaintingHugeTasteConversationModelsLibraryStudiosMake SenseArt HistoryHistory Books Author:Kehinde Wiley
“My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.” WantArtistBitsPracticePaintingAspectStudiosScalesNarrativePeterMundaneRubens Author:Kehinde Wiley