Evil Quote by Brian Froud

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were…

— Edgar Degas

Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in…

— Kirsha Kaechele

I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself…

— Edgar Degas

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up…

— Matt Bomer

I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about.…

— Kehinde Wiley

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my…

— Cy Twombly

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle,…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling…

— Caio Fonseca

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

— Ann Brashares