#painting

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#attack #color #different #different directions #directions

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #manipulation #most #painting #power

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#drawing #later #making #means #most

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#cannot #does #into #painting #plane

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#any #beautiful #buy #dollars #i

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. ↗

— Corita Kent

#listen #look #music #paintings #people

All gardening is landscape painting. ↗

— William Kent

#landscape #painting

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#golfing #hobbies #i #like #painting

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction. ↗

— Salman Khan

#bored #day #direction #done #fans