Art Quote by Francis Bacon

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in…

— Patti Smith

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint…

— Philip Guston

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all…

— Philip Guston

No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope…

— Philip Guston

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside…

— Gertrude Stein

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of…

— Philip Guston

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises…

— Vincent Van Gogh

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

— Francis Bacon

If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different…

— Gerhard Richter

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring