“I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.” I CanArtistPaintingThemeReliefConundrums Author:John Currin
“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.” GivingArtRealRealityFormPurposeArtistSongPaintingDeterminationTalesConfusedThemeImaginative Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.” LightPaintingShapesElementsHarmonyThemeVisualsColourRepetition Author:Mike Svob
“Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.” IfsWritingHumansImportantFilmSexHuman BeingsOur LivesPaintingExpressionReturnEternalSingingCelebrateArtisticThemeArtistic ExpressionSex And DeathFilm Writing Author:Pedro Almodovar
“The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.” LooksHas BeensSeemsLeftAttentionPaintingMiracleCreatorTheme Author:Lucian Freud
“If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.” IfsWantLooksStillsPoliticalBlackPaintingTypeModelsFruitNarrativeThemeBrownBowlsViewersLenses Author:Kehinde Wiley