Beautiful Quote by Alice Levine

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract…

— Robert Genn

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

— Oscar Wilde

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to…

— John Gardner

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or…

— Jerry Saltz

Sometimes in a sculpture, it's interesting to me what's stylized and what's natural and how those forms interrelate, as they interrelate in ourselves.

— Charles Ray

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky…

— Patrick Wilson

All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the…

— William Blake

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

— Igor Stravinsky

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

— John Updike

My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist…

— Kehinde Wiley

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The…

— Lori Earley