The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
The Science of Government it is my duty to study, more than all other Sciences the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematics and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. This letter has not been dated precisely, but appears to have been written after Adams's letter to his wife on May 12, and before one written to her on May 15.
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
We'll have a group of artists in different locations outside the center, painting in different mediums. A lot of people like to watch artists work.
No matter how tired we are after the tours to India and now here we have to find a way of drawing ourselves closer for the final 10 days. It is our target to reach the final and to win it.
We put in a library, a dining room a drawing room and a bedroom, and a nice center hall which sort of leads off to all these spaces.
This would essentially make the drawing of districts a judicial function. The Governor does not feel that this should be a judicial function.
Within five minutes, he was in excruciating pain, drawing his knees up.
Mississippi has long been home to writers, painters, sculptors, blues artists, quilters and others who have helped define the very essence of this land, ... Restoring our artists and arts organizations is vital to the rebuilding of this state.
Another attraction is the relationship between photography and painting. In an artist's mind these elements have always been able to merge.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it increases the risk.
Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.
I was doing some on-site work up at Trapper's Lake, drawing the smoke clouds off in the distance, and the entire place burned up right after we left. It was a rather poignant experience.
Once you are 0-4, you have got to start finding some positives here. I'm very unhappy with the way the offense is executing, and the defense is playing great. We have to go back to the drawing board to get some things that are going to work.
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
I must have been very young but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall with wax crayons.
Genius depends on dry air, on clear skies -- that is, on rapid metabolism, on the possibility of drawing again and again on great, even tremendous quantities of strength.
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
Painting completed my life.
People who see a drawing in the New Yorker will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.
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Our artists are very good technicians. They have sensibility and artistic balance. But quite often they lack in creation. I have one artist here in my studio in New York. She's a good painter, but she has problems of creating her own stuff, of inventing. She can copy from a postcard, but when she has to do other things she has a tough time. She knows it. Not everybody can do great things.
I started to spend more time in the drawing and painting studio course. I thought it would be smart to get my teaching certificate, and upon taking some classes, I discovered I had a passion for teaching.
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
I did the work on the drawing board at half-time and the players did it out on the pitch. So I think we all did our work well but matches are won on the pitch. Everybody should take a bit of credit.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Painting and calligraphy make people calm and put them in the right frame of mind.
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
Sunlight is painting.
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
I have sworn to die painting.
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