Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second. Guido Molinari More Quotes by Guido Molinari More Quotes From Guido Molinari I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. I was painting in blue, then I had a need to paint in red. To be able to interact with the medium, this is the key. There are no sure ways to do art. Guido Molinari color blue art Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story. Guido Molinari painting different stories My work is not repetition. It is an exploration. Guido Molinari repetition exploration In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color. Guido Molinari color expression trying The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn. Guido Molinari engagement painting may With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape. Guido Molinari differences expression lying Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting. Guido Molinari music listening art I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting. Guido Molinari painting movement eye It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes. Guido Molinari perception eye impossible Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct. Guido Molinari patterns different brain You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space. Guido Molinari space brain ideas
