Best painting & study Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.”

Trying Song Universe Term Study Painting Intellectual Bigger Intuition Faithful Description Ineffable

Author:Guy Consolmagno

“Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.”

Firsts May Littles Stills Principles Study Painting Painter Colour Grounded

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.”

Ifs Knows Want Wanted Study Students Painting

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“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.”

Firsts Long Important Hard Simple Study Students Painting Relation Fundamentals Important Things Spots Realization

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.”

Would Be Study Nice Painting Masters Europe Originals Being Nice

Author:E. J. Hughes

“There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.”

Chance Study Painting Fine Exciting Drawing Texture

Author:John French Sloan

“Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.”

Art Easy Deals Practice Study Painting Tasks Intelligence Analysis Practice Makes Perfect Easy Tasks

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.”

Ifs Thinking Want Past Joy Study Painting Museums

Author:Nelson Shanks

“Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?”

Knows Made Ideas Feelings Artist Felt Study Subjects Painting Personality Messages Response Sensitivity

Author:Gerald Brommer

“Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.”

Art Study Doors Color Painting Wings Sticks Tiny Butterfly Canvas Insects Pencils Combining Barns Butterfly Wings

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.”

Study Painting Taste Temper Improving Eloquence

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.”

“If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.”

Ifs Hard Used Study Taken Painting Originals Drawing Painter Used To Be Granted Museums Cartoon Cartoonist Taken For Granted

Author:Bill Watterson

“I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.”

War Study Generations Painting Son Mathematics My Son Commerce Agriculture Politics And War

Author:John Quincy Adams

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.”

Ifs Looks Art Play Seems Study Violence Mankind Painting Murder

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.”

Children War Political Politics Study Painting Fine My Children Commerce Agriculture Practicality Fine Things

Author:John Adams

“I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.”

Feels Stills I Can Use My Own Views Study Painting Moved Photograph Mediums

Author:John Dyer

“Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.”

Enough Simple Study Effects Painting Strive Simplicity Complexity

Author:Chai Lu

“Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Would Be Three Interesting Morning Study Seeing Painting Fine Clock Endeavor Throwing Fine Arts Throwing Things

Author:Ben Schnetzer

“I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.”

School Study Teacher Teaching Painting Degrees Sculpture

Author:Kurt Wagner

“I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.”

Ifs Trying Looks Mean Art Facts Study Figures Painting Art Is Tradition Justification Tapestry Art History Weavers

Author:Robert Barry

“Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.”

Years Firsts School Study Design Painting Photography Thirds Fourth Fifth Graphic Graphic Design Fourth Year

Author:Ryan McGinley

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