“I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.” ProblemFiguresColorPaintingOrdinaryStructureTraditionalLandscapeDistinctionLightingFigure Painting Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.” ArtI CanSchoolRememberPaintingMomHigh SchoolMy MomDrawingTraditionalPainterGapsGraffitiDrawing And Painting Author:Alec Monopoly
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski
“...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.” IfsWorldLooksArtMadeIdeasPaintingArt IsMachinesTraditionalPainterUselessInstantCaptureGesturesExecutionSkillfulSubversionRedefining Author:David Byrne
“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