“When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.” MayStillsPaintingTechniqueMeatFlatsThrillPainting A Picture Book:Black paintings Source: Black paintings
“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.” MeanEndsSidesEffectsPaintingPaperConsciousEmbraceMerePaintStriveTechniqueExpressiveMeans To An EndMannerisms Author:Walter J. Phillips
“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.” ThinkingTwoLightFormThreePaintingSurfaceTechniqueHandleChosenMediums Author:Janice Tanton
“Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.” ArtArtistPaintingMastersAreasMethodTechniqueContemporaryEaseAbstractCompetenceRenaissanceAbstract Painting Author:Igor Babailov
“No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.” WantStillsMatterUsePaintingEternalAspectNo Matter WhatTechniqueMeaningful Author:Dan Thompson
“There is no standard way of using painting techniques.” WayPaintingStandardsTechnique Author:Wu Guanzhong
“I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.” WorldLongDifferentProcessBornResultsCareersCreativePaintingOilTechniqueKnivesCanvasArtworkInner World Author:Leonid Afremov
“As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.” SpiritFeetSubjectsPaintingTechniqueIndianSoil Author:Amrita Sher-Gil
“Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is when the space gets flattened or the space collapses. It's the same with the technique in the sculptures: for some to feel really wrong, you have to have parts be really right.” FeelsMomentsAbleSpacePaintingTechniqueCollapseSculpture Author:Francesca DiMattio
“The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.” MomentsImpossiblePaintingCapablePhotographTechniqueAnalogiesExpressiveConveying Author:Edouard Vuillard
“I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.” KindBookPaintingTechniqueTraditionalAll KindsFurnitureDecoration Author:Paul Smith
“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsArtYoungBlackLevelsSawsExamplePaintingWallInstitutionsSacredInspiredTechniqueScalesLos AngelesMuseumsHeroicCompositionVansUrgencyCountyBarbershop Author:Kehinde Wiley