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

— Tom Robbins

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The…

— Lori Earley

At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing…

— Glenn Ligon

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they…

— Andrew Wyeth

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing--…

— Gerhard Richter