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Picasso: “I wanted to paint as
one writes, to paint quickly and fast as thought happens,
within the rhythm of the imagination. I began from the right
side and it’s around this image that the rest of the image
is constructed”.
“Fish in a bird cage and birds in an aquarium – an
affirmation of limitless possibilities”.
Francis Bacon (interpreter of our contemporary nightmare):
“Simplification, distortion of forms and modifications of
natural appearances are ways of arriving at intense
expressiveness of form”.
“Painting is the pattern of one’s nervous system being
projected on the canvas”.
Van Gogh: “Real painters do not
paint things as they are. They paint them as they themselves
feel them to be”.
“Taking a figurative image to the verge, but just short of
abstraction gives it a mysterious and compelling tension”.
Munch, regarding his contempt for the notion of stylishness:
“Few artists speak to us so directly about the self, but
even fewer are so devoid of self-consciousness.
Munch declared: “No longer shall I paint interiors, people
reading and women knitting. I shall paint living people, who
breathe and feel and suffer and love. I shall paint a number
of pictures of that kind. People will understand the
sacredness of it, and will take off their hats as though
they were in church”.
Salvador Dali said that if you want dramatic change in your
life then simply wear your shoes on the opposite feet. Dali
believed that the delirium of dream fragments could be
assembled in such a way as to be understood the very instant
a viewer cast his eye on the canvas. Dali used classical
technique but did so to unveil the irrational, the
‘omnipotence of dreams’. |
