#painting

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#believe #everybody #paintings #people #photographs

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. ↗

— David Amram

#black #black and white #did #gorgeous #greenwich

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets. ↗

— Ursula Andress

#around #buy #collect #even #frames

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#desire #extraordinary #feel #i #i always

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#blindly #body #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#already #each #enough #hardly #i

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#appeared #constantly #me #only #painting

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order. ↗

— Maurice Denis

#assembled #battle #before #certain #colours