#painting

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#most #paintings #people #respond #spectators

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising #conceal #i #illustrate #manufacturers

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#already #am #art #because #boring

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#every #every man #experimental #get #i

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#blind #feels #himself #man #painting

One must act in painting as in life, directly. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#directly #life #must #painting

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#beautiful #horror #i #must #painting

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#does #just #opposite #painting #particular

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#comment #make #painter #painting #sculpture

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

#painting #silent #speaks