“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.” IfsLittlesArtStillsEyeYoungMotherGirlSpaceForgetAnimalSawsTeacherModernStagePaintingTablesPaintCreatorTongueRingsCleverStaringAbstractFiftyNever ForgetCoveredMuseumsPotBellsRealismBowlsVagueBrushesModernismSlapTubesWristsModern ArtInclineAbstract ArtSticking OutStaring Into Space Author:Jean Cocteau
“It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.” MenWellsYoungPaintingModelsDrawsYoung ManOver ItCurtains Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.” YoungPaintingModelsAbandonFinestMaidensRefreshments Author:Peter Paul Rubens
“As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.” PersonsMadeRunningYoungPaintingMaterialsDemandStudiosFavorsFixedAddressesStabilityNo MoneySpatial Author:David Salle
“You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.” YoungWaitingPaintingListeningMusic IsAspectFingersTomsSophisticatedToolbox Author:Elvis Costello
“A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.” WantIdeasRealUseWantedYoungChanceSawsPaintingHappeningsRoseWoodsLondonPainterInsects Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.” KidsYoungStuffComedyPaintingDrawingBloodyTwistsPrivate PartsDrawing And Painting Author:Tom Six
“[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.” YoungKnownChangedStrangePaintingChanged My Life Author:Agnes Varda
“Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.” KidsYoungLevelsPaintingSingingThirdsGradesThird Grade Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.” KnowsYearsPersonsFilmYoungActorsPaintingYears AgoDisappearDrawingFiftyGrantsMovie ActorsPainting And Drawing Author:David Hockney
“I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.” WayShouldBigsTogetherBeautifulYoungNextStrongProducePaintingDirectWeakUglyContraryNarrativeContrastVary Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“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.” ArtYoungGirlBlackTermAbilityWalksInfluenceColorPaintingHistoricalMuseumsBrooklynBlack GirlSpecificity Author:Kehinde Wiley
“At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.” IfsWritingTryingHas BeensHandsAgeWantedYoungMy OwnFrontsPaintingShapesYoung Age Author:El-P
“Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.” HardYoungThreeAdvicePaintingHard WorkNeededOneselfSculptureThree ThingsGood Advice Author:Gian Lorenzo Bernini
“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsArtYoungBlackLevelsSawsExamplePaintingWallInstitutionsSacredInspiredTechniqueScalesLos AngelesMuseumsHeroicCompositionVansUrgencyCountyBarbershop Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.” ArtYoungPainting Author:Dennis Hopper