#painting

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion. ↗

— William Scott

#am #concerned #expectation #flat #i

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. ↗

— William Scott

#charcoal #drawing #drawn #economy #find

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. ↗

— Frank Stella

#aim #art #compromised #create #decoration

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell. ↗

— Howard Finster

#art #come #criticism #enough #feeling

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#arts #college #coming #degree #fine

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#forget #laugh #life #me #night

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#attack #color #different #different directions #directions

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina