#painting

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

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#came #challenge #did #highlight #home

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#capable #cause #could #did #emotions

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#business #concerned #contingent #design #engineering

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#art #hangs #hard #modern #modern art

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#black and white #go #information #lie #never

Well, I have a very simple method of painting. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#method #painting #simple #very #well

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! ↗

— Robert Musil

#alone #creation #day #god #lifes