Best painting & visuals Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.”

Way Trying Form Space Pleasure Painting Shapes Organization Paint Work Out Rhythm Landscape Visuals Realistic Composing Greatest Pleasures Fugue Sonatas Cezanne

Author:Ian Hornak

“The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.”

Effort Greater Painting Evolution Appearance Visuals Paradox Abstraction Fidelity Verge Cezanne

Author:Clement Greenberg

“The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.”

Art States Alive Painting Art Is Miracle Sacred Constant Visuals Renewal Visual Art Exaltation

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.”

Kind Painting Exciting Musical Abstract Visuals

Book:Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

Source: Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

“By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.”

People Art Character Social Pleasure Fiction Audience Painting Approach Majority Crowds Narrative Visuals Plot Melody Elites Rhyme Favour Sculpture Meter Excluded Elitism Edification

Author:Steven Pinker

“When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.”

Way House Walks Tree Subjects Rocks Painting Concepts Landscape Visuals Desirable Snapshots

Author:John French Sloan

“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.”

Action Artist Process Clear Painting Communication Drawing Visuals Mechanic Sculpture Spectators

Book:Drawing and Sculpture

Source: Drawing and Sculpture

“My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual.”

Thinking Differences Painting Photography Aspect Dialogue Painter Visuals Ongoing

Author:James Nares

“We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.”

People Thinking Sometimes Memories Share Modern Painting Huge Photograph Visuals

Author:Chris Hondros

“If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That's why it's not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not-you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Hard Might Artist Car Possibility Painting Opposites Accounts Tables Invisible Manage Visuals Engineers Sculpture Visual Art Visual Artist

Author:Richard Tuttle

“The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.”

Light Painting Shapes Elements Harmony Theme Visuals Colour Repetition

Author:Mike Svob

“That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.”

Years Firsts Art Courses Painting University Visuals Broads Sculpture Visual Art Lancaster

Author:Andy Serkis

“It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.”

Ifs Mean Ends Term Painting Judgment Madness Defined Analysis Visuals Sanity Sane Vans Ends And Means

Author:Robert Hughes

“I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.”

Sometimes Values Media Painting Activity Visuals Fascinating Hue Physical Activity Materiality

Author:Stephen Beal

“Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.”

Writing Done Process Painting Sake Visuals Journal Journal Writing

Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

“A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.”

Mean Made Hands Light Film Artist Painting Evidence Shadow Photograph Visuals Representation Convincing Flattering

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.”

People Ideas Different Real Form Honest Painting Communication Photograph Planes Visuals Subjective

Author:Tibor Kalman

“We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'”

Said Dream Literature Born Painting Source Models Visuals Canon Surrealist

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.”

Thinking World Fans Painting Planets Visuals Stimulation

Author:Scott Avett

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