Art Quote by Hedy Lamarr

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints…

— Raymond Pettibon

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel,…

— Claude Monet

Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the…

— Pierre Alechinsky

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a…

— Willem de Kooning

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

— Wanda Koop

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing,…

— Philip Guston

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that…

— Kehinde Wiley

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

— Ron Parker