“Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? Language is much closer to film than painting is.”— Sergei Eisenstein, books.google.com
“The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky".”— Bethany Hamilton, amazon.com
“There is a train track in the history of art that goes way back to Mesopotamia. It skips the whole Orient, the Mayas and American Indians. Duchamp is on it. Cézanne is on it. Picasso and the Cubists are on it; Giacometti, Mondrian and so many, many more – whole civilizations.”— Willem de Kooning, dekooning.org
“Of course breathing on land is an obvious thing you should be able to do. But even though it’s a very simple process, sometimes it can feel really difficult.”— Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, blouinartinfo.com
“In the last year I've really been thinking about closeness in relationships, especially the dual nature of intimacy: the idea that we, as human creatures, need each other, but that need doesn’t stop us from complicating each other’s lives”— Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, blouinartinfo.com
“I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting. I paint this way because I can keep putting in more and more things in it: drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space.”— Willem de Kooning, amazon.com
“The issue for me, and I think it existed for all the fellows [ New York School ]. What are we going to paint?”— Barnett Newman, amazon.com
“I don't think painters have particularly bright ideas. [What do they have?] I guess their talent of painting things.”— Willem de Kooning, amazon.com
“Everything that passes me I can see only a little of, but I am always looking. And I see an awful lot sometimes.”— Willem de Kooning, dekooning.org
“Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are used more as sticks rather than brushes the brush doesn’t touch the surface of the canvas, it’s just above.”— Jackson Pollock, homepages.neiu.edu
“I paint on the floor and this isn’t unusual, the Orientals did that.”— Jackson Pollock, homepages.neiu.edu
“I noticed when I had something photographic, like a mouth it gave me a point of reference. It was something to hold onto.”— Willem de Kooning, amazon.com
“Everyone who creates anything knows, there is a moment. When a third hand is doing it.”— Philip Guston, vimeo.com
“There is something that is deathlike about making a unity which is quickly grasped.”— Philip Guston, vimeo.com
“I've always thought that a painter or artists first duty is to be free, to have freedom.”— Philip Guston, vimeo.com
“The paintings that didn't make it if you move a form over 6 inches it wouldn't matter. However in these paintings if you move something a half an inch it would matter. There is a sense of inevitability in the image.”— Philip Guston, vimeo.com
“It's a kind of obsessive image in which there are no corrections. But that's not the usual. Usually it's an approximate subject a free floating subject. In which I apply my means of painting unto”— Philip Guston, vimeo.com
“It's almost as if I instinctively, or compulsively ( perhaps that's better ) started to get involved in something that I was involved in much earlier in my career ( 30s/40s )”— Philip Guston, vimeo.com