80s Quote by Deborah Kass

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY…

— Deborah Kass

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would…

— Anthony Storr

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The…

— Lori Earley

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred…

— William Baziotes

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the…

— Jasper Johns