#painting

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#between #earlier #i #paintings #picture

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. ↗

— Diego Rivera

#breaks #female #her #paintings #sexuality

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. ↗

— John Hurt

#ask #far #felt #insecure #made

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! ↗

— Randy Bachman

#brick #browns #cave #color #ended

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#apparently #becomes #final #finished #fixed

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#forces #i #i believe #i believe the #i love

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#computers #digital #enough #huge #huge challenge

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. ↗

— Frank Stella

#imitating #learns #looking #other #painters

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#infinitely #minute #painting #part #personality