“The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.” WantHumansLooksReasonViewsPaintingPaintGlassesCommandIntimacyIntimateLook UpReducing Author:Mark Rothko
“If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.” IfsGivingWellsLooksReasonCharacterMightWould BeLostViewsQualityVisionTreePaintingKingsOriginalsPhotographIndividualityForestsNo ReasonRepresentationDefectsGrandeurThorns Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.” FirstsSaidChoicesNextViewsPayPaintingBusyPoint Of ViewKitchen Author:F. Murray Abraham
“You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.” FirstsHumansEyeStrongUnderstandingViewsPaintingDramaSceneFirst TimeReactionsBehaveEvokeHuman Eyes Author:Mike Svob
“The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.” IfsKnowsWorldShouldI CanHelpingViewsPaintingWalkingCriticsHardestSavingHardest ThingUpside DownWalking AwayDumpedSquinting Author:Karla Kuskin
“I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.” ThinkingImportantHappensViewsAcceptingEnemyWorstPaintingJudgmentImportant ThingsFingersStudiosPoint Of ViewPassingPassingsPointingWorst EnemyAccepting YourselfPointing FingersPassing Judgment Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.” FeelsStillsI CanUseMy OwnViewsStudyPaintingMovedPhotographMediums Author:John Dyer
“I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.” WayCertainViewsBehindsExamplePaintingColdBuiltFilledPaintGlassesBoxesPoint Of ViewControlledHidingSuggestionsClinicals Author:Oliver Jeffers
“I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.” PeopleStillsWarRealPlayReadingViewsFirePaintingAccountsIncrediblesPoint Of ViewJournalismJournalistHelpfulBroadsBobReportersPtsdBaptismReal EducationPlay Time Author:James D'arcy
“In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.” ViewsShareInfluencePaintingPhotography Author:Jack Welpott
“Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.” PersonsArtCertainSongViewsBehindsAwarenessPaintingAmountDirectStrokesBrushesBrush Strokes Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayFeelsHas BeensShowsPurposeDifficultViewsTelevisionPaintingTvsLgbtAccurateExaggeratedTelevision ShowsComedic Author:Billy Eichner
“[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.” PeopleIfsWantCoursesInterestMy OwnViewsObjectsPaintingIntentionPoint Of View Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.” BelieveMeanDesireLiteratureViewsPaintingCreaturesPoint Of ViewStorytellingFilmmakingGazingNavelNavel Gazing Author:Kehinde Wiley