Black Quote by David Amram

Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital…

— Jackson Pollock

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however…

— Julian Schnabel

I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of…

— Norman Mailer

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred…

— Jerry Saltz

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't…

— Barbara Kruger

The artist by his work is known.

— Francoise-Marguerite de Sevigne

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

— Kehinde Wiley

It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home in the…

— Brian Froud

All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of this in…

— Georg Baselitz

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like…

— William Eggleston