“The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.” StillsValuesPaintingStrongerPainterSubtle Author:John F. Carlson
“Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.” InformationPaintingSubtleGet AwayLoadedVisceralCezanne Author:Wolf Kahn
“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.” WorldWayArtBookRealEndsEyeArtistNumbersPiecesPaintingArt IsEdgesDetermineDeterminedBoundariesSubtleReal WorldFrontiers Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon
“Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.” IfsArtColorPaintingPromiseSubtleSculpture Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.” WayFeelsLooksStillsWholeUseLightFilmDarkChangedColorPaintingClothesSeparationGet BetterSubtleDigitalFlatsPrintingScreeningLight And DarkJuxtaposition Author:Colleen Atwood