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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (2828)4/25/2003 9:21:08 PM
From: Jeff Jordan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5125
 
painting con't.

pre-lesson study:

"First I saw the mountains in the painting; then I saw the painting in the mountains. "Chinese Proverb

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."Michelangelo

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things." Edgar Degas

"Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." Edgar Degas.

"Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also." Paul Cézanne

"PAINTING, n: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." Ambrose Bierce

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!" Max Liebermann

"Painting is stronger than I am. It can make me do whatever it wants. "Pablo Picasso

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." Pablo Picasso

"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen." Pablo Picasso

"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society." Man Ray

"The painting has a life of its own." Jackson Pollock

"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings." George Tooker

Final thought:
transcend - To go beyond the limits of. To surpass, as in intensity or power. Going beyond the ordinary range of perception. It may even mean above and independent of material experience or the universe, as in the experience of God. (pr. tran-send') Also see transcendentalism.