Book Quote by Anton Chekhov

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because…

— Mark Ryden

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that…

— Glenn O'Brien

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner

So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of…

— Carly Chaikin

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

— John Singer Sargent

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

Easel painting means small painting.

— David Hockney

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

— Robert Barry

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for…

— Ellsworth Kelly

All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase…

— Alison Mosshart

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir