“Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.” WantNeedsWritingMindChildrenHelpingStoriesPagesPaintShort Story Author:Jonah Lehrer
“Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!” HumansFactsStoriesTodayAmericaCultureStrongSportsSidesSimpleBoysRichGrowingPerspectiveHeroPeriodsProfoundPaintInternationalDetailsObsessedBiographiesParallelsAnecdotesCelebrity Culture Author:Nigel Hamilton
“A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingStoriesComedyPaintingPoetPaintPainterNot SureShort StoryEstimation Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.” KnowsI CanMatterStoriesEasyCan DoKnow HowFiguresDifficultyPaintBackgroundsPainterVentureRecommendationsRubens Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.” ShouldArtStoriesBeautifulFormInterestFieldsExpressionPaintAbstractColourWorks Of ArtIllustrationExpressive Author:John F. Carlson
“What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.” StoriesSeemsLibertySubjectsMovementPaintingFlowerImportancePaintSignificant Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.” DoeStoriesPaintingPaintOilDecadesObsessionPainterIncompleteThickness Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is