#painting

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#behind #european #mask #matter #modern

My painting carries with it the message of pain. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#message #pain #painting

Painting is a hobby for me. ↗

— Renee O'Connor

#me #painting

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. ↗

— David Hockney

#another #drawing #haven #i #just

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other. ↗

— Jack Paar

#doing #end #finished #george #george washington

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#any #back #beginning #compliment #confronts

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#aware #doing #i #i am #painting

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#drawings #final #i #into #make

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting. ↗

— Billy Rose

#eats #invest #needs #never #painting