“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksMeanFeelingsEyeThreeLiteratureFeltPaintingFindingsHundredYears AgoSpotsIslandsSandClueFootprintDesertedIndescribableCandlelightDeserted IslandFootprints In The Sand Book:Losing Julia Source: Losing Julia
“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.” GivingMayTwoThreeSpaceObjectsPaintingIllusionConcernStrivePainterLuxuryPlanesPeculiarQuantitySculptureSculptors Author:Herbert Read
“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.” IfsWritingLooksMeanDoeIdeasSchoolFormCertainThreeHalfPlansDoorsPaintingExpressionModelsDrawsRemainsDrawingPainterInteriors Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“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
“I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.” TryingKindTwoThreeColorPaintingExcitingSurfaceAbstractDimensionsBelongingVibrancyThree DimensionsAbstract PaintingSticking It Author:Euan Uglow
“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.” EndsStoriesThreeProcessPerfectPaintingBuiltDepthUnconsciousPathwaysDreamworks Author:Billy Cannon
“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.” PeopleWantKindArtThreeLinesLevelsAwarenessPaintingAmbitionUnderstoodPraiseCriticsBurningConfusedSignificancePlasticFluidModernismPainting A Picture Author:Arnold Friberg
“For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I don't see them as sequences, but rather as companion pieces, the way that diptychs often work. The idea comes originally from the paintings of Michael Venezia who places blocks of painted wood next to each other. Proximity is a godsend. The quote is from Wallace Stevens.” WayWritingYearsTwoIdeasTogetherThreeNextPiecesGroupsPaintingWoodsBlockCompanionSequenceProximity Author:Jim Moore
“My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.” PeopleThinkingWellsChildrenI CanPainThreeLostWishPaintingMessagesSeriesHorribleRevolutionaryFulfilledHorrible Life Author:Frida Kahlo
“The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.” WellsRealUsedArtistThreeEffectsPaintingWallDramaUnderstoodEnormousFlatsNichePhenomenal Author:Werner Herzog
“Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.” WayFirstsArtMomentsThreeSpaceQualitySpecialPaintingFirst TimeWelcomeEveningArtisticNightmareCaptureCanvasFrozenTime And SpaceItemsCollectorsGood Evening Author:Rod Serling
“The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.” TwoJoyLyingThreeChallengesMemoriesPaintingSymbolsTranslations Author:Paul Kane
“If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.” IfsFirstsMeanChildrenBookHardThreeHoursMinutesPaintingHard WorkSpendingChildren's BooksRevisingRedos Author:Michael Ian Black
“It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.” MadeIdeasWholeArtistThreeCareersStagePaintingElementsGood IdeasSkeletons Author:Josh Smith
“Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.” MenThreePaintingParadiseFlood Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.” IfsWantTwoArtistThreeCoursesImaginationStagePaintingProductsAddCopiesSpoil Book:Degas by Degas Source: Degas by Degas
“Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.” ThinkingArtSometimesWould BeThreeInterestingMorningStudySeeingPaintingFineClockEndeavorThrowingFine ArtsThrowing Things Author:Ben Schnetzer
“I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.” BelieveWantedThreeI BelieveDealsKnowingSadnessSkyLonelinessFieldsPaintingPaintBrushesWheatCloudyWheat FieldsCloudy SkiesSadness And Loneliness Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.” KnowsArtUsedThreeFourCollegePaintingDrawingDrawing And Painting Author:Noel Fielding
“Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.” HardYoungThreeAdvicePaintingHard WorkNeededOneselfSculptureThree ThingsGood Advice Author:Gian Lorenzo Bernini