Bibhu Mohapatra Quotes

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Approach nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone ...

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

I paint abstract expressions.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.