“My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.” IdeasMomentsPerfectWatchesSpecialPaintingTypeShapesFilledEverydayDetailsMoodRealisticEveryday LifeViewersSurrealismGrotesqueDrippingSurrealistSpecial Moments Author:Ian Hornak
“In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.” IfsValuesSpaceFiguresMovementPaintingSourceTypeSolePrincipalCompositionEnchantmentSource Of LifeTactileFigure Painting Author:Bernard Berenson
“I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting.” ThinkingArtDifferentMatterArtistSubjectsPaintingTypeEssentialsTrainingMethodPaintExperimentsFormalSubject MatterArt HistoryDifferent Subjects Author:Ron Parker
“Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.” NeedsStudentsPaintingTypePainterAbstractFlexibilityUnlearn Author:Joshua L. Goldberg
“I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.” ArtImportantSelfWantedFormFunSeeingPaintingTypeHighestUniversityDrawingRelatedAbstractRejectsPretentiousSurrealismAbstract Painting Author:Neil Farber
“I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art.” PeopleArtSchoolArtistCareersCollegePaintingTypeInternetDrawingThanksVarietyNoticingArt SchoolFree TimeCollege LifeMaking A LivingDrawing And Painting Author:Julie Dillon
“There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.” WorldWayLooksMayArtMadeDifferentHappensPaintingPerspectiveTypeOkayHistoricalAcceptableSanctionsHistorical Perspective Author:Julian Schnabel
“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
“Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject of the painting.” MightStruggleSubjectsPaintingTypeEmbodimentVisibility Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost "use-value"-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.” ThinkingUseCertainValuesPracticeEffectsPaintingTypeDrivenAgentsLuxuryConsumersGoodsWealthyInvestigationMarxistLuxury Goods Author:Kehinde Wiley
“There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would be that my work set up certain type of precedent, that allowed for great institutions, museums and viewers to see the possibilities of painting culture to be a bit more inclusive.” ThinkingWould BeDesireCertainCultureBitsPossibilityPaintingTypeInstitutionsMuseumsInclusionViewersPrecedent Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.” WritingNaturalPaintingTypeFortuneTennisGood FortuneNatural Gifts Author:Roger Housden