Best painting & surface Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?”

Mind Together Artist Energy Lines Effects Color Painting Depth Details Surface Arise Planes Intensity Serenity Volume Composition Spectators Calmness Repose Being Together

Author:Eli Siegel

“I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?”

Way Made Fire Painting Surface Pursuit Impression Burning Flames Provoking Spontaneous

Author:Yves Klein

“Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.”

World Doe Objects Painting Concepts Window Surface Modernism

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.”

Thinking Two Light Form Three Painting Surface Technique Handle Chosen Mediums

Author:Janice Tanton

“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.”

Giving Looks Whole Term Alive Painting Ambition Mark Surface Constructs Intervals My Ambition

Author:Andrew Forge

“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.”

World Feels Mean Important Form Artist Given Waiting Results This World Painting Various Surface Contemporary Painter Landscape Visible Productive Internals Stimulus

Author:Edward Betts

“I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.”

Trying Kind Two Three Color Painting Exciting Surface Abstract Dimensions Belonging Vibrancy Three Dimensions Abstract Painting Sticking It

Author:Euan Uglow

“Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.”

Thinking Way Helping Problem Used Known Painting Expression Solutions Negative Intention Surface Spokes Expressive Neutrality

Author:Jasper Johns

“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.”

Trying Humans Two Ideas Courses Human Beings Impossible Painting Planets Tasks Complexes Paint Surface Absurd Organisms Portraits Portraiture

Author:David Cobley

“There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.”

Way Trying Painting Bigger Paint Surface Honestly Representation Wrong Way

Book:Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings

Source: Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings

“The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.”

Mind Moving Pieces Magic Painting Illusion Surface Planes

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

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

“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience”

Humans Self Body Courses Lost Results Support Records Objects Painting Wall Development Function Cameras Surface Arise Sole Viewers Human Body Expressive Pictorial Incorporating

Author:Gunter Brus

“[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Art Real Lasts Pleasure Modern Havens Honesty Example Ignorance Painting Theory Reader Blame Response Surface Genuine Comic Comic Strips Harshness Real Truth

Author:Chris Ware

“I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.”

Want Giving Past Painting Masters Deserve Built Roots Importance Including Surface Abandon Layers Canvas Transparent My Past

Author:Jose Parla

“The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.”

Sound Meditation Painting Depends Paint Surface Scales Compare Intensity Gestures Bows Physicality

Author:Stephen Beal

“What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?”

Mean Art Painting Surface Pool

Book:On painting and On sculpture: The Latin texts of De pictura and De statua

Source: On painting and On sculpture: The Latin texts of De pictura and De statua

“I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.”

Looks Individual Wonder Objects Color Painting Surface Texture

Author:Mordicai Gerstein

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