Greatness Quote by Charles Saatchi

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

— Damien Hirst

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to…

— Georges Braque

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

— Brion Gysin

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few…

— Frida Kahlo

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

— Emily Carr

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be…

— Anonymous

I've never done an anguished painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

— Amy Sillman

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

— Joshua L. Goldberg