“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.” MenWellsActionPoorResultsFiguresProducePaintingMastersEmbraceFortuitous Book:Notebooks Source: Notebooks
“Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.” ResultsPaintingIntuitionPoetry IsUnfortunateLifeless Author:Georges Braque
“Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.” HardBlackResultsPaintingRedWineBrownYellowPaleVaryDissatisfaction Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!” YearsWellsResultsProgressChangedPaintingOne DayTenYellowPalette Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.” RealResultsProduceStrangePaintingApproachAspectAccidentsHolesTriumphFavourPits Author:Bill Vaughan
“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.” WorldFeelsMeanImportantFormArtistGivenWaitingResultsThis WorldPaintingVariousSurfaceContemporaryPainterLandscapeVisibleProductiveInternalsStimulus Author:Edward Betts
“Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.” ArtistResultsMistakeQualityPaintingWasteDrawingFasterFixing Author:Igor Babailov
“With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.” NeedsUseWould BeOrderLinesResultsEffectsObjectsPaintingMaterialsUniversalAimWingsDrawingColourButterflyOrganizeSoupVividPatchesRealisedConstituentsSparklingFlavourDrawing And PaintingButterfly Wings Author:Jean Dubuffet
“With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.” StillsDifferentUseSeemsCausesResultsObjectsPaintingApproachFlowDirectPaintNotionDenyAccidentsDrawingStill LifeExpressionismAbstract Expressionism Author:Jackson Pollock
“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience” HumansSelfBodyCoursesLostResultsSupportRecordsObjectsPaintingWallDevelopmentFunctionCamerasSurfaceAriseSoleViewersHuman BodyExpressivePictorialIncorporating Author:Gunter Brus
“I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.” WorldLongDifferentProcessBornResultsCareersCreativePaintingOilTechniqueKnivesCanvasArtworkInner World Author:Leonid Afremov
“It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.” WritingArtUsedResultsMagicPaintingRememberedDefiniteArt Music Author:William S. Burroughs
“I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to be no risk and once a painter gets a strategy, very little exploration. As a result, I stopped thinking about painting a long time ago. I prefer forms of art that are more market-resistant, more idea-based, more - for lack of a better word - risky.” ThinkingLittlesArtIdeasSeemsFormResultsRiskNew YorkPaintingStrategyPainterRelyExplorationFormulasRepetitionDon't Trust Author:Kenneth Goldsmith