“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.” ThinkingArtSchoolIndividualPaintingFinishedPainterRealisingLayersOften IsArt School Author:Chris Ofili
“I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.” WantedSchoolGamesStuffRoomsFootballPaintingWallHigh SchoolFootball GameWeird StuffSchool Experience Author:Brie Larson
“I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.” SchoolEffortActingPaintingNeededHigh SchoolOutletsCollaborative Effort Author:James Franco
“I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.” ArtSchoolTogetherPaintingSculptureInterdisciplinary Author:Thomas McDonell
“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.” WayWritingSchoolArtistLanguageMovementPaintingPoetNovelistsIrritatingAppreciativeAllegory Author:A. S. Byatt
“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.” IfsWritingLooksMeanDoeIdeasSchoolFormCertainThreeHalfPlansDoorsPaintingExpressionModelsDrawsRemainsDrawingPainterInteriors Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.” WayWantWantedSchoolFoundStupidTaughtPaintingFoolShapesConcernDecidedPaintPainterColourVery Stupid Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.” WritingWantedSchoolPaintingBandHigh SchoolMy SisterPacifiers Author:Cyndi Lauper