Almost Quote by Dana Schutz

Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off…

— Louis Aragon

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph,…

— Sara Sheridan

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

— Sylvia Pankhurst

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows,…

— John Ruskin

All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings in the…

— Beth Grant

You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which…

— Al Hirschfeld

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just blows your…

— Anh Do

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have…

— H. R. Giger

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

— Anthony Trollope