Aristocratic Quote by Brad Holland

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings…

— Linda Colley

A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking…

— Vic Mensa

In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators,…

— Vik Muniz

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

— Tom Robbins

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure…

— Nan Goldin

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

— David Mamet

Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the…

— James Elkins

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk…

— John Guare

Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so…

— Jack White

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the…

— Edvard Munch