#painting

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#axiom #dogma #general #must #painting

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#certain #certain things #collage #committed #dots

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#color #colors #drawing #guess #hard

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#been #expressionist #five #forget #how

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of. ↗

— David Lynch

#cheap #cheaper #film #get #go

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#become #created #crucial #discovery #had

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#evening #historic #homage #humblest #i

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#me #naked #newspaper #nude #paintings

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#clothes #given #me #painting #publicity

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#art #bourgeois #came #civil #civil wars