Sarah Faux talks painting. nice.(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/) …
https://ricdragon.com/2018/02/10/sarah-faux-talks-painting-nice/
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Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out. Henri Matisse …
https://ricdragon.com/2018/01/06/dont-try-to-be-original-be-simple-be-good/
For the greater the number of freely entertained different, mutually contradictory ideas, the greater the chance that their collision will strike a spark, ignite insight. & a house that is entirely secured is a prison. -Anne Truitt …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/12/26/for-the-greater-the-number-of-freely-entertained/
gagosiangallery:“There isn’t any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.” —Richard Artschwager The acclaimed artist was born on this day, December 26, in Washington, D.C. _________________ Image: Richard Artschwager, “Self Portrait,” 2003, acrylic, fiber panel on celotex …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/12/26/there-isnt-any-art-until-some-creature-sees-and/
Making and not making art
The art critic Jerry Saltz wrote an article earlier this year about his having been an artist when he was younger – and his decision to no longer be an artist. I´ve found myself discussing the article with friends, now and then, and see references to it pop up again and again on Twitter. I suppose …
Long live painting Back, postcard from Henri Matisse to Pierre Bonnard, 13 August 1925, private collection …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/12/25/back-postcard-from-henri-matisse-to-pierre/
Good art should elicit a response of ‘Huh? Wow!’ as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?’ Ed Ruscha, born on this day in 1937. (via whitneymuseum) …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/12/16/good-art-should-elicit-a-response-of-huh-wow/
“There’s no real difference between figurative painting or abstract painting, ‘cause it’s all painting to begin with… You don't’ have to follow any rules as a painter. If you’re making an abstract painting it doesn’t mean eventually it can’t morph into a figurative one.”(Source: …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/11/17/theres-no-real-difference-between-figurative/
It’s not a matter of painting life. It’s a matter of giving life to paint. Bonnard, as quoted in Timothy Hyman’s ‘Bonnard’ …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/11/14/its-not-a-matter-of-painting-life-its-a-matter/
I stand in a corner of the room, near to this table bathed in sunlight. The eye sees distant masses as having an almost linear aspect, without relief, without depth. But near objects rise up towards it. The sides trail away. And these shifts are sometimes rectilinear - for what is distant; sometimes …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/11/14/i-stand-in-a-corner-of-the-room-near-to-this/