Artist Quote by Cecily Brown

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of…

— Philip Guston

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

When someone has to do work for me, I lose my mind. I can't help it, I'm a bit of a control freak. I've…

— Zomby

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you…

— Joe Bradley

What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as…

— James Nares

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very…

— William Baziotes

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically…

— Philip Guston