Matt Mullenweg Quotes

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

Reductionism is merciless.

But of works of art little can be said.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.