Art Quote by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to…

— Robert Motherwell

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

— Douglas Portway

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

— Kiki Smith

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

— Erwin McManus

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

— Craig Raine

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

— Marc Davis

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the…

— Michele Cassou

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating…

— Jackson Pollock

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

— Jasper Johns