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’ …
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philosophy of painting
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 …
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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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