“I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!” MenWayWantUseHomeBeautifulChurchDarkWalksRaceDarknessFiveMinutesPaintFlatsRomeFive Minutes Author:Taiye Selasi
“I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.” FeelingsPurposeWalksVisionGreenPaintForestsPainterSensationsIndigestion Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.” ThinkingFeelsLooksLittlesHas BeensRealCountryNatureWalksRocksPaintingPaintCloudsStudiosWoodsEach DayLiving ThingsDiagrams Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.” IfsI CanAbleFeltWalksAliveGratitudeDrawsPaintGladWorking ItJust BeingWorth Living Author:John Newman
“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?” SpiritualArtistForceHeavenWalksVisionDivineGeniusConsciousEarsPaintChosenPainterVanityLandscapeUnconsciousUrgesAngleReal BeautyEmulation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.” FeelsTryingLooksLastsArtistAsksWalksComfortablePagesPaintShouldersStaringManuscripts Author:Robert Genn
“You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.” NeedsAbleActorsStuffWalksRoomsEmptyPaintBackgroundsBullshitGreat ActorsMarkersCondescendingEmpty Rooms Author:William Friedkin
“You think the only people who are people, Are the ones who look and think the way you do, But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, You'll learn the things you never knew you never knew... You can own the Earth and still, All you'll own is earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLooksStillsEarthWalksColorWindPaintStrangerFootsteps Author:Stephen Schwartz