“Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.” SituationPaintingTasksCurrentsAccomplishExpensiveSustenanceDemonstratingCurrent Situation Book:Asger Jorn Source: Asger Jorn
“Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.” ArtEasyDealsPracticeStudyPaintingTasksIntelligenceAnalysisPractice Makes PerfectEasy Tasks Author:Edgar Alwin Payne
“In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.” YearsFirstsHas BeensIdeasLastsResponsibilitySituationPaintingReflectionTasksTwentiesCurrentsAccomplishIntimateExpensiveArticlesJournalHomageSustenanceRenderingDemonstratingSofasBanalityCurrent Situation Author:Asger Jorn
“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.” TryingHumansTwoIdeasCoursesHuman BeingsImpossiblePaintingPlanetsTasksComplexesPaintSurfaceAbsurdOrganismsPortraitsPortraiture Author:David Cobley
“Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.” IfsArtRealitySuccessfulPaintingTasksPerformancesQuestioningAffirmationDexterity Book:PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983 Source: PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983