Art Quote by A. Y. Jackson

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most…

— Claude Monet

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and…

— Edvard Munch

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

— Burton Silverman

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice…

— Ben Shahn

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to…

— Max Beckmann

The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the…

— Nancy Hale