Accurate Quote by Francis Bacon

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside…

— Chelsea Martin

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by…

— Francis Bacon

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

— Howard Hodgkin

I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few things I…

— Randall Munroe

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I paint with shapes.

— Alexander Calder

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares,…

— Bridget Riley

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as…

— Al Hirschfeld

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and…

— Juan Gris