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Painting requires preparation for perception... You can't "tell" a picture. But we can talk about those vital phenomena that caused it.
To draw means, overcoming difficulties, to pull something out.
Pictures certainly have magic. And here no words are needed. After all, words can lie, but pictures cannot.
An artist must be hungry.
- A person who likes to watch. <...> Have you heard such a name as Leonardo da Vinci? He said that people are divided into two types. Those who see. Those who see when they are shown and those who do not see.
BUT! This is undoubtedly a new masterpiece of Maria Nikolaevna. Amazing rubbish! Stupid as a horse!
Quote Explanation: 1st series.
“Pictures do not capture,” he thought irritably, “they offer themselves, and whether they exist or not depends only on me, I am free in front of them.” Too free: this created additional responsibility in him, and he felt guilty.
- He wrote for four years.
Such are we, the Kins - if you open our veins, oil will pour!
Do you think people who write about paintings understand them? I'm revealing a secret to you: you can't write about paintings at all. Just like art in general. They write only for one purpose - to enlighten the ignorant. You can't write about art. It can only be felt.
What is a well-chosen collection of paintings if not walls covered with thoughts?
Painting is the nail on which I attach my ideas.
The favorite and most important elements of my painting were the following eight: 1) architecture, for its certainty, contrast, clarity and constructiveness; 2) snow, for its exceptional purity and sensitivity to all light influences; 3) the sky, for the maximum space to the movements of the brush and the combination of the dynamics of the spots presented by him; 4) light, for its inherent enchanting powers; 5) space, for its ability to transform, generalize and absorb everything tangible, for its reduction to one denominator of all that is visible; 6) movement, for the living nerve communicated by it, for its organic connection with the movement of the whole element; 7) the sun, as an invariable patron of painting, as a source of light and colors, and in fact, almost the only theme of the painter; 8) the body, as the most sensual and subtle material, as a symbol of the most picturesque plasticity, picturesque sensuality.
I love the art I can see! If I had a tattoo on my back, it would be tantamount to owning an expensive painting that you can't see. Like, "Oh, I have a terrific, expensive picture, but I won't show it because it's in my uncle's house."
It takes a genius to feel like “Le Rêve” every moment.
