Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and…

— Vija Celmins

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on…

— Kay WalkingStick

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on…

— Lucian Freud

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…

— Brenda Ueland

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding…

— Edward Hopper

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied…

— Julian Schnabel