Can do Quote by Frank Stella

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

— Ken Danby

I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed shape-by-shape, layer-by-layer,…

— Kerry James Marshall

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to…

— Claude Monet

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

— Georg Baselitz

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

— Gerhard Richter

The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and…

— Nigel Cooke

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

— Ad Reinhardt

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

For me, the whole idea of the radically new is tied to a close reconsideration of older sources. I like to give myself over…

— Philip Taaffe

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir