“What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more.” HelpingArtistVisionMorningStreetsMinutesSubjectsPaintingPhotographerThirtySundaySignificanceDiscoveringSunday Morning Author:Robert Adams
“Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.” YearsWellsLastsFiveGenerationsPaintingHundredTwentiesImmortalityThirtyTombstone Author:Robert Genn
“Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.” KnowsNeedsYearsNamesFiveSubjectsPaintingPhotographyTwentiesThirtyTwenty Five Book:William Wegman: Funney/strange Source: William Wegman: Funney/strange
“I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.” IfsSeemsEyeFeetMovementParticularPaintingWallFinishedSpotsThirtyCanvasResponding Author:William Baziotes
“When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.” PeopleYearsDoneLastsLiteraturePathSawsPaintingTheaterFollowingContemporaryFranceRelateCinemaThirtyMy TimeVirginiaThirty YearsJoyceWoolf Author:Agnes Varda