Big picture Quote by Ernest Hemingway

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from…

— Robert Motherwell

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

— Christo

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that…

— Glenn O'Brien

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

— Robert Barry

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

— Anonymous

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

— Michael Heizer

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

— Wassily Kandinsky

It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this…

— Hans Hofmann

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

— John Dyer

I love to paint and beautify the most unexpected of places - I've painted everything from doorways to trains but have always wanted to…

— Ben Eine