PAINTISNOTDEAD

Paul Gauguin

2011-11-02T15:46:00.002-03:00

Paul Gauguin (Paris 1848-1903 Atuona, Marquesas Islands)

"I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant."

Van Gogh

2011-10-18T20:18:00.000-03:00

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 Netherlands)
"You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color."

Edgar Degas

2011-10-13T07:17:00.000-03:00

Hilaire Germain Edgar de Gas (Paris 1834-1917 Paris)
"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."

Frank Auerbach

2011-10-10T17:24:00.001-03:00

Frank Auerbach (Berlin 1931- )
"I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life."

Diebenkorn

2011-09-23T08:10:00.001-03:00

Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. (Portland 1922-1993 Berkeley)
"Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting."

Georges Braque

2011-09-23T07:59:00.004-03:00

Georges Braque (Argenteuil-sur-Seine 1882-1963 Paris)
“Truth exists; only lies are invented.”

Willem de Kooning

2011-09-21T08:20:00.002-03:00

Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam 1904-1997 East Hampton, N.Y.) "In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble."

Alex Katz

2011-09-21T08:09:00.001-03:00

Alex Katz (New York 1927- )
"Part of what I'm about is seeing how I cant paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way."

Alex Katz

2011-09-16T11:42:00.002-03:00

Alex Katz (New York 1927- )
"Part of what I'm about is seeing how I cant paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way."

Lucian Freud

2011-09-16T11:41:00.003-03:00

Lucian Freud (Berlin 1922- 2011)
"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."

Basquiat & Warhol

2011-09-04T16:51:00.002-03:00

Jean Michel Basquiat (Brooklyn, N.Y. 1960-1988 N.Y.)
"SAMO as an alternative 2 playing art with the 'radical chic' sect on Daddy's $ funds."

Andrew Warhola (Pennsylvania 1928 - 1987 New York)
"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

Joan Miró

2011-09-03T03:32:00.003-03:00

Joan Miró (Barcelona 1893-1983 Majorca)
"Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension."

Vincent van Gogh

2011-09-03T03:29:00.002-03:00

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 Netherlands)
"You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color."

Camille Pissaro

2011-08-31T20:12:00.000-03:00

Camille Pissaro (St. Thomas 1830 - 1903 Éragny-sur-Epte)
"Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.".

Karel Appel

2011-08-08T15:20:00.000-03:00

Karel Appel (Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich) "If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age."

Pablo Picasso

2011-08-08T10:07:00.000-03:00

Pablo Picasso (Malaga, Spain 1881-1973 Mougins, France) "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs."

Robert Motherwell

2011-08-04T20:53:00.000-03:00

Robert Motherwell (Aberdeen 1915-1991 Cape Cod)

"Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask."

Van Gogh

2011-08-03T09:34:00.000-03:00

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 Netherlands)
"You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color."

George Hendrik Breitner

2011-07-29T21:33:00.000-03:00

George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam 1857-1923 Amsterdam)

Max Beckmann

2011-07-26T17:49:00.000-03:00

Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884-1950 New York)
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."

Lucian Freud

2011-07-26T17:46:00.000-03:00

Gustav Klimt

2011-07-16T17:02:00.000-03:00

Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten 1862 - 1918 Viena)
"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."

Edgar Degas

2011-07-14T15:51:00.003-03:00

Hilaire Germain Edgar de Gas (Paris 1834-1917 Paris)
"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."

Francis Bacon

2011-07-09T13:54:00.002-03:00

Francis Bacon (Dublín 1909-1992 Madrid)
"Picasso was the first person to produce figurative paintings which overturned the rules of appearance; he suggested appearance without using the usual codes, without respecting the representational truth of form, but using a breath of irrationality instead, to make representation stronger and more direct; so that form could pass directly from the eye to the stomach without going through the brain."

Rembrandt

2011-07-03T13:11:00.002-03:00

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669 Netherlands)
"Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know."

Kees Van Dongen

2011-06-09T22:13:00.000-03:00

Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen (Rotterdam 1877 - 1968 Monte Carlo)
"The secret of my success? You just paint women smaller and their jewellery bigger."

Edouard Vuillard

2011-06-09T19:43:00.004-03:00

Jean Edouard Vuillard (Cuiseaux 1868-1940 La Baule)
"I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self."

Henry Matisse

2011-06-09T18:25:00.002-03:00

Henry Matisse (Le Cateau 1869-1954 Nice)

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

Marc Chagall

2011-06-01T10:03:00.003-03:00

Marc Chagall (Vitebsk 1887-1985 Saint-Paul de Vence)
"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."

Roberto Matta

2011-05-20T09:28:00.002-03:00

Roberto Matta (Santiago 1911-2002 Civitavecchia, Italy)

Roberto Matta

2011-05-20T09:27:00.000-03:00

Roberto Matta (Santiago 1911-2002 Civitavecchia, Italy)

Amedeo Modigliani

2011-05-19T17:49:00.001-03:00

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (Livorno, Italy 1884-1920 Paris) "What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race."

Otto Dix

2011-05-19T17:37:00.005-03:00

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (Untermhaus, Germany 1891-1969 Singen, Germany) "All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time."

Pablo Picasso

2011-05-19T09:19:00.000-03:00

Conrad Marca-Relli

2011-05-15T12:55:00.002-03:00

Conrad Marca-Relli (Boston 1913 - 2000 Parma)

"Painting has nothing to do with imitating life. It has a life of its own life, in it reality is based on its own rules."

Rafael Barradas

2011-05-15T12:54:00.002-03:00

Rafael Barradas (Montevideo 1890-1929 Montevideo)

Francis Bacon

2011-05-10T22:13:00.002-03:00

Arshile Gorky

2011-05-10T22:12:00.000-03:00

Vostanik Manoog Adoyan (Khorgom 1904-1948 Connecticut)
"Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one."

Henry Matisse

2011-05-10T08:33:00.002-03:00

Henry Matisse (Le Cateau 1869-1954 Nice)

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

Maurice Vlaminck

2011-05-05T09:17:00.000-03:00

Maurice de Vlaminck (Paris 1895-1960 Paris)
"In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them."

Claude Monet

2011-04-24T18:38:00.002-03:00

Claude Monet (Paris 1840-1926 Giverny)
"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

Mark Rothko

2011-04-16T18:02:00.001-03:00

Mark Rothko (Russia, Dvinsk 1903-1970 N.Y.)

"Since my pictures are large, colorful and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls. This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative."

Joan Miró

2011-04-16T18:01:00.003-03:00

Joan Miró (Barcelona 1893-1983 Majorca)
"Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension."

Pablo Picasso

2011-04-16T18:00:00.005-03:00

Pablo Picasso (Malaga, Spain 1881-1973 Mougins, France) "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs."

Pablo Picasso

2011-04-16T18:00:00.002-03:00

Pierre Bonnard

2011-04-08T16:13:00.001-03:00

Pierre Bonnard (Fontenay-aux-Roses 1867-1947, Le Cannet/Cannes)
"It is still color, it is not yet light."

Pablo Picasso

2011-04-07T18:31:00.000-03:00

Willem de Kooning

2011-04-02T20:41:00.002-03:00

Max Beckmann

2011-04-02T20:39:00.001-03:00

Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884-1950 New York)
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."

Max Beckmann

2011-04-01T21:03:00.002-03:00

Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884-1950 New York)
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."

Lucian Freud

2011-04-01T20:20:00.004-03:00

Lucian Freud (Berlin 1922- )
"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."

2011-02-15T08:22:00.001-03:00

Georges Henri Rouault (Paris 1871 - 1958 Paris)
"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human."

Edvard Munch

2011-02-09T10:10:00.000-03:00

Edvard Munch (Løten 1863 - 1944 Ekely)
"Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being. In one way or another it must have affected him emotionally, and the viewer must be made to feel the same way. You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it."

Pablo Picasso

2011-01-19T09:20:00.005-03:00

Marc Chagall

2011-01-12T20:07:00.001-03:00

Pablo Picasso

2011-01-12T20:00:00.005-03:00

Milton Avery

2011-01-12T19:58:00.003-03:00

Milton Avery (New York 1885-1965 New York)

"I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea."

Milton Avery

2011-01-12T19:57:00.003-03:00

Milton Avery (New York 1885-1965 New York)

Willem de Kooning

2010-12-18T21:50:00.000-03:00

Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam 1904-1997 East Hampton, N.Y.) "In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble."

Frank Auerbach

2010-12-12T09:42:00.000-03:00

Frank Auerbach (Berlin 1931- )
"I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life."

Félix Vallotton

2010-12-07T10:09:00.003-03:00

Félix Vallotton (Lausanne, Switzerland 1865-1925 Paris)

Howard Hodgkin

2010-12-03T22:12:00.002-03:00

Howard Hodgkin (London 1932- )

"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

Henry Matisse

2010-12-03T22:08:00.001-03:00

Henry Matisse (Le Cateau 1869-1954 Nice)

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

Willem de Kooning

2010-11-24T08:12:00.000-03:00

Paul Klee

2010-11-20T16:03:00.000-03:00

Paul Klee (Switzerland 1879-1940 Muralto) "One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded."

Edward Hopper

2010-11-04T13:05:00.000-03:00

Edward Hopper (Nyack 1882-1967 New York City)
"One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great."

André Derain

2010-10-02T13:43:00.001-03:00

André Derain (Chatou 1880-1954 Garches, Paris)
"We were always intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors live."

2010-09-28T08:16:00.003-03:00

Rafael Barradas (Montevideo 1890-1929 Montevideo)

Jean Michel Basquiat

2010-09-22T19:14:00.000-03:00

Jean Michel Basquiat (Brooklyn, N.Y. 1960-1988 N.Y.)
"SAMO as an alternative 2 playing art with the 'radical chic' sect on Daddy's $ funds."