#painting

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#abstract #avant-garde #expressionism #harvard #i

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. ↗

— Voltaire

#because #brought #cannot #colors #contrary

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#asked #finally #friend #how #i

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#am #andy #andy warhol #behind #films

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. ↗

— Edward Weston

#active #acts #age #bodies #decisively

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arises #cinema #color #difficulty #element

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. ↗

— John Erskine

#books #done #everything #government #lets

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#guy #i #modest #myself #painting