“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.” WayIdeasNamesBlackWhiteTalkingSupportColorPaintingPerspectiveProportionBlack And WhiteWorth ItChiaroscuro Author:Eugene Delacroix
“We must always apologize for talking painting.” TalkingPaintingExpressionApologizing Author:Paul Valery
“Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.” TalkingPaintingCommunicationValuableIncapable Author:Georges Braque
“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingHeartHomeKidsTalkingBreakWifeDoorsPaintingPleaseGive MeCookingPhonesMy WifeMealsEggsSurgeryHookCeilingsAnnoyedOpen HeartDealing With PeopleHeart Surgery Author:Ken Robinson
“In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and my paintings. There are, after all, more popular painters in this country.” CountryCoursesTalkingPaintingAbsurdPainterGermanyMuseumsComplaintsNot TalkingTalking About Me Author:Georg Baselitz
“No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.” ThinkingShouldMeanArtMatterHappensTalkingCreativityPaintingAbsolutesCookingPhysicsCraftsEtcChemistryEngineeringNot Talking Author:Alton Brown
“Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.” I CanTalkingSubjectsHonestPaintingSeriousRogues Author:Thomas Gainsborough
“Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.” WritingEyeTalkingPaintingSingingUnderstoodSightDancingFinalsThrough The Eyes Author:Charles Demuth
“You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.” PeopleWayHeartRealAbilityTalkingCreativityCreativePaintingSkillsFantasticBranchesCopiesGenesNew WaysCreative PeopleCopyingMemesReal Heart Author:Susan Blackmore
“Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.” ShouldSexTalkingPaintingPaintPainterShut UpShowersMassage Author:Chris Martin
“I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, I was introduced to Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings.” MomentsBigsTogetherCoursesStuffInterestTalkingPaintingHugeImpactFeministBurdenRevelationsGangBreakthrough Author:Ragnar Kjartansson
“We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated. That's what I'm talking about, is that we have a regulatory system that is biased to protect profit and not to protect people. We need a much more precautionary and proactive regulatory system that is not influenced by the revolving door.” PeopleNeedsTalkingGenerationsDoorsCenturyPaintingProtectPaintProfitHousingBiasedGasolineProactiveRevolvingRevolving Doors Author:Jill Stein