Artist Quote by Dana Schutz

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

— Richard Pousette-Dart

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to…

— Stephen Beal

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.

— Sean Scully

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or…

— Lawren Harris

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

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

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that…

— Joe Bradley

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley