“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.” PersonsUsedWaterFiveFourRocksStrangeMaterialsMountainElementsRedStonesBlueGreenPaintSevenTreasureCakeJewelsRiceWondrousRice Cakes Author:Dogen
“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.” IfsLooksNaturalStyleMountainModelsStonesPaintCopiesCracks Author:Cennino Cennini
“At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise” BodySpiritWaterRedStonesPaintBonesGravesJointsPlungeFresh Water Author:Crazy Horse
“I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.” MenBlackDarkWhiteStonesPaintI RealizedCaves Author:Pierre Soulages
“You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.” FirstsMayPlayAbleFacesPerfectCreativeCreationColorMastersMusicianStonesPaintCreatorTechniqueHandlePainterPianoCanvasBe Creative Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness
“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.” SeemsDoorsStonesPaintNow And ThenStepping Stones Author:Pablo Picasso
“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.” MenHeartTwoWarMatterFactsPastArtistSongDiesFallNamesCryGoes OnSingingStonesUltimateUniversalPaintDecadesTreasureTriumphFakePrintFraudAshesFacts Of LifeMillenniumGood Heart Author:Orson Welles