Artist Quote by Andrew Graham-Dixon

“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an…

— Paul Tournier

“How a painter treats this edge is the real subject of realist painting; how the brush behaves in the vicinity of an edge gives…

— David Salle

The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of this in…

— Georg Baselitz

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas

“Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the environment. Its…

— Luis Camnitzer

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

— George Tooker

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

— Lee Krasner