Believe Quote by Ed Askew

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work…

— Philip Taaffe

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for…

— Mary Cassatt

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

— Joseph Plaskett

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

— Chuck Close

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

— Robert Motherwell

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

— William Hazlitt

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

— Jonathan Lethem

One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.

— Peter Senge

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

— Nolan Bushnell

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

— Asger Jorn