“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
“I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.” LittlesMadeSaidEyeEmotionWifePaintingUnderstoodOvercomingStudiosMy WifePortraitsAffirmativePortraiture Author:Jules Breton
“Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.” WritingEyeTalkingPaintingSingingUnderstoodSightDancingFinalsThrough The Eyes Author:Charles Demuth
“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
“I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.” TogetherGamesFunStruggleFiguresPaintingFitUnderstoodAbstractAesthetic Author:Margaux Williamson
“Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."” PeopleThinkingFeelsSometimesArtistHateFeltEnjoyPaintingUnderstoodAbstractWowCriedAbstract Painting Author:Jose Parla
“I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.” PeopleArtPaintingUnderstoodGenuineContemporaryInstanceDivisionDividedContemporary ArtConceptual Art Author:Michael Craig-Martin