“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
“It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight.”
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English painter, specialising in portraits 1723–1792Related quotes
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) French painter
Quote from Denis' Journal, 1930; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [43] <br class="br">1921 and later
“My paintings are merely signs that the activity was engaged in.”
Patrick Swift (1927–1983) British artist
Portuguese Notes (Gandon Editions Biography 1993).
Context: Not to paint is the highest ambition of the painter but God who gives the gift requires that it be honoured. It is in the gesture that it lives. There is no escape. Picture-making is ludicrous in the light of the awful times we must endure. It is sufficient to contemplate the nature of composition to see that the picture itself is impossible. Each square inch of Titian contains the whole pointless — between the cradle and the grave. My paintings are merely signs that the activity was engaged in.
James Rosenquist (1933–2017) American artist
Quoted in Brian Sherwin, "Art Space Talk: James Rosenquist," http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/04/art-space-talk-james-rosenquist.html myartspace.com (2008-04-04)
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
Jane Smiley (1949) American novelist
Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.”
Grace Hartigan (1922–2008) American artist
As quoted in "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" in The New York Times (18 November 2008)
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) Italian painter and sculptor
As quoted in: John F. Moffitt (2003) Alchemist of the Avant-Garde: The Case of Marcel Duchamp, p. 87.
1910, Manifesto of Futurist Painters,' April 1910
Jasper Johns (1930) American artist
Watchman. Somewhere here, there is the question of "seeing clearly". Seeing what? According to what?
Book A (sketchbook), c 1965: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 60
1960s