Accidents Quote by Bill Vaughan

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's…

— Jenny Saville

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new…

— Nelson Shanks

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

— Pierre Alechinsky

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

— Francis Bacon

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least…

— Susan Minot

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces.…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

— Michele Cassou

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus