Quote by De Kooning

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters…

— Glenn Ligon

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the…

— Philip Johnson

“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded…

— Man Ray

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same…

— Luther E. Vann

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think…

— Laura Owens

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

— Anonymous

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

“I paint as a means to make life bearable.”

— Van Goh

“See, if you paint wrong because that’s the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to?…

— Neal Shusterman

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

— A. S. Byatt