#painting

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#always #away #been #cartoon #cartoons

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. ↗

— James Mooney

#after #afternoon #always #begins #commonly

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#i think #matter #music #painting #subject

My painting carries with it the message of pain. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#message #pain #painting

Painting is a hobby for me. ↗

— Renee O'Connor

#me #painting

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#apart #enjoy #general #i #know

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#could #exquisite #flower #had #i

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#door #painting #picture #stepping-stone #art

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other. ↗

— Jack Paar

#doing #end #finished #george #george washington

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline