I try to tell my students not to listen to music while they are painting. They might be making terribly expressive paintings, or quiet paintings, but they’ve got this music pounding in their ear. I ask them what they are listening to, and it has nothing to do with what they are working on. I tell …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/09/01/i-try-to-tell-my-students-not-to-listen-to-music/
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. Giorgio Vasari Jul 30, 1511 - Jun …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/07/29/these-rough-sketches-which-are-born-in-an-instant/
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. Bonnard …
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“If you love and grasp painting you are a philosopher. Painting is more than all those small human values which are deemed important in our current society.” -Markus Lüpertz, as quoted in Turps Banana #15 …
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“We are now coming out of the long period during which painting always minimized itself as painting in order to ‘purify’ itself, to sharpen and intensify itself as art. Perhaps with the new 'photogenic’ paintingit is at last coming to laugh at that part of itself which sought …
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Susan Rothenberg(Source: https://www.youtube.com/) …
“I´m a process artist. You start off with an idea, and then ideas keep coming as you´re creating. And eventually, the painting tells you what it wants.” Grace Hartigan(Source: https://www.youtube.com/) …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/05/27/i-m-a-process-artist-you-start-off-with-an-idea/
ricdragon: “Painting is the art which reminds us that time and the visible come into being together, as a pair. The place of their coming into being is the human mind, which can coordinate events into time sequence and appearances into a world seen. With this coing into being of time and the …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/05/16/ricdragon-painting-is-the-art-which-reminds-us/
‘Most things in the world are absolute in terms of taking someone’s word for it. For example, rulers. But if you yourself made a sphere, you could never know if it was one. That fascinates me. Nobody will know it. It cannot be proven, so long as you avoid instruments. If I made a sphere …
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