Big picture Quote by Anonymous

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place…

— Mark Rothko

Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room. In my…

— Autumn de Forest

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

— Ron Parker

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for…

— Henry Selick

“One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you take its…

— David Salle

“Today we will practice the mindful contemplation of an image. You may select whatever image you would like to look at, something you find…

— Alexis G. Roldan

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when…

— Dawoud Bey

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

— Kathe Kollwitz

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the…

— Bill Henson