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“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Made Two Whole Film Certain Walks Minutes Havens Painting Consumed Gallery Down Time

Author:Julie Mehretu

“Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.”

May Walks Journey Painting Companion Parts Of Life

Book:Thoughts and Adventures

Source: Thoughts and Adventures

“You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.”

Giving Answers Walks Sea Painting Moon Remains Investigation Elude

Book:Picasso and his art

Source: Picasso and his art

“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

Thinking Feels Looks Littles Has Beens Real Country Nature Walks Rocks Painting Paint Clouds Studios Woods Each Day Living Things Diagrams

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.”

People Ifs Inspirational Art Walks Teacher Painting Critics Studios Ghost Painter

Author:Philip Guston

“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

“Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.”

People Thinking Art Form Walks Comedy Painting Agree Museums Towels

Author:Jim Norton

“I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing I Can Enjoy Realizing Walks Opinion Painting Pressure Length Museums Gallery

Author:Tom Robbins

“Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.”

Men Feels Happens Eye Walks Powerful Environment Streets Effects Painting Couple Bed Studios Oil Stuck Gallery Harassment Offenders Oil Painting Street Harassment

Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.”

Art Young Girl Black Term Ability Walks Influence Color Painting Historical Museums Brooklyn Black Girl Specificity

Author:Kehinde Wiley