Artist Quote by Glenn O'Brien

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from…

— Robert Motherwell

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the…

— Jerry Saltz

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

— Michael Heizer

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They…

— Eric Fischl

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because…

— Mark Ryden

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine…

— Michael Heizer

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

— Honore de Balzac

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

— Ernest Hemingway

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place…

— Mark Rothko

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