“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.” MayLinesTakenPaintingLandscapeMake SenseCompositionIgnoredLandscape Painting Author:Walter J. Phillips
“In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?” PeopleKindTakenPaintingPhotographBusyErasDaily LifeMuseumsFrankIntroducingDisdainCuratorCartierHenri Cartier Bresson Author:Burton Silverman
“I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.” IfsTakenPaintingBreasts Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.” ShouldArtHardWholeFormForceMistakeTakenFourCenturyObjectsPaintingPerspectiveTraditionCreditDisappearRenaissanceImposingBeholderGhastlyRedressCezanne Author:Georges Braque
“Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.” WellsKindSeemsTodayTakenFiveAliveNew YorkPaintingWallSix Author:Jackson Pollock
“If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.” IfsHardUsedStudyTakenPaintingOriginalsDrawingPainterUsed To BeGrantedMuseumsCartoonCartoonistTaken For Granted Author:Bill Watterson
“In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena.” Has BeensCertainTakenCuttingPaintingWallBricksSparta Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done - it's taken things from the world and said, Look how much more real this is now.” PeopleWorldWellsLooksSaidRealDoneTakenPaintingGoes OnInternet Author:Margaux Williamson
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski
“Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.” ArtShowsRememberNextTakenSeeingPaintingTransformedThe Next OneMatisse Author:Anthony Caro