#painting

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster. ↗

— John O'Neill

#disaster #feathers #look #nothing #paint

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#beauty #could #frame #i #i think

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

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#good #nothing #painting #such #thing

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism. ↗

— Will Sergeant

#am #century #chord #colour #early

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#canvas #hardest #painting #problems

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#dreams #inspirational #nightmares #painting #art

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#inspirational #jocelyn #love #painting #art

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#inadequacy-of-words #painting #power-of-words #self-expression #art