Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
The Deadwood dirt they painted on us with powder. The air always smelled of livestock and something burning, gave a sooty, dense feel to the air. It was a mixture of odors.
I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
