#painting

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

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #manipulation #most #painting #power

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#drawing #later #making #means #most

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ↗

— Paul Klee

#compositions #expression #forms #further #life

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#around #art #colors #come #emotions

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#artistic #digital #kinds #making #much

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#enough #just #key #know #painting

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#disk #hand #hawaii #his way #house

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#actually #after #art #artist #because