“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!” TwoWarTogetherFilmBitsPaintingPhotographyShotsPhotographerPhotographIraqNewspapersExpertsChemicalsEditingIraq WarCrumbling Author:David Hockney
“I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.” WarStudyGenerationsPaintingSonMathematicsMy SonCommerceAgriculturePolitics And War Author:John Quincy Adams
“All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.” IdeasWarCareBeautifulLawGirlStuffPaintingPlanetsFlowerDisciplineSpeciesDisappearWho CaresAvenuesBrooklynBeautiful GirlRefiningHeatingFlatnessHeating Up Author:Chris Martin
“I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.” ChildrenWarPoliticalPoliticsStudyPaintingFineMy ChildrenCommerceAgriculturePracticalityFine Things Author:John Adams
“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