Cutting Quote by Ellen Gallagher

“The crucial tools for shaping wood include a block plane, a variety of bits allowing for more intricate patterns.”

— Jennifer Lake

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

— Robert Genn

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

— Christian Marclay

A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede,…

— Jo Baer

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

— Ellsworth Kelly

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being…

— Georges Braque

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

— Rex Brandt

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you…

— Sean Booth

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

— Vivek Shraya