Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

— John Marin

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture.

— John Marin

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that…

— Agnes Martin

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give…

— Jackson Pollock

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on…

— David Hockney

“Art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both, and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise…

— Northrop Frye

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that…

— Edvard Munch

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the…

— Bill Henson

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown