Between Quote by Ellsworth Kelly

I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space…

— Stephen Beal

That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.

— Leon Kossoff

On one level, I'm interested in how the space dictates the effect visually - how the composition of a given work changes depending on…

— Landon Metz

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

— Guido Molinari

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body…

— Leon Battista Alberti

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them?…

— Mordicai Gerstein

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the…

— Janice Tanton

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

— Chuck Close