“Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.” TalkingPaintingCommunicationValuableIncapable Author:Georges Braque
“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.” LightFormMotherToo MuchPaintingDecidedEssenceValuablePassingPassingsBoatLandscapeFeaturesAnnoyingExecutionLocksCan NotRoyalAcademyBrightnessLightnessScholastics Author:John Constable
“Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.” TwoImportantArtistSubjectsPaintingValuableSignaturesGraffiti Author:Gavin Turk
“I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.” ThinkingMindFirstsArtSaidStatesBuildingPaintingProductsFinalsDefinitionsValuableFinishedPreservesChairsWorks Of ArtState Of MindBest WorkRoger Author:Alistair Cooke