Brush strokes Quote by Antoni Tapies

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have…

— H. R. Giger

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them…

— Brian Eno

Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history…

— Kehinde Wiley

As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds…

— Walter Keane

“The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole thing oddly…

— Don DeLillo

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique…

— A. Y. Jackson

“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”

— William Gaddis

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however…

— Julian Schnabel

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”

— Holly Black

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— Mason Cooley