I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane… — Wifredo Lam Copy Share Image
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, we react to one a bit differently than we do to Rothko’s hovering panels or Barnett Newman’s stripes, though Whistler does… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
