Early Quote by Elvis Mitchell

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it,…

— M.I.A

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still…

— Daniel Clowes

What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

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

People are always asking me about the '60s, like I should be some sort of expert. It's like being in the middle of a…

— Rita Tushingham

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

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with…

— Philip Guston

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— Mason Cooley

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on…

— Robert Genn

You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.

— Dave Davies

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't…

— Sigmar Polke