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Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

— Marcel Duchamp

Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject…

— Kehinde Wiley

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

In times of crisis the artist must rise to the challenge and try to make sense from the chaos.

— Shabana Azmi

“Painting is the mother of Photography”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

“Living the artist’s life, it turns out, is full of surprises. Yes, it is about being sensitive to beauty, about creating exquisite objects and…

— Mallory M. O'Connor

Jonathan Meese is not interested in the history of reality. Everything radical and precisely graphic is sustainable. Human ideologies like religions and politics are…

— Jonathan Meese

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

“In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.”

— Adorno, Theodor W

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

— Balthus

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at.…

— Lucian Freud

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have…

— H. R. Giger