#painting

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. ↗

— Terri Windling

#desert #folklore #i #long #long series

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#magic #painting #piece #see #you

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. ↗

— Philip Guston

#gong #inspired #like #look #painting

Painting and writing are solitary arts. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#painting #solitary #writing

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#artists #concern #craft #description #every

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. ↗

— Keith Haring

#colors #eye #fact #guess #i

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#couple #doing #i #just #last

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. ↗

— David Hockney

#else #i #nothing #only #painting

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#contemporaries #dead #easier #get #i