Essence Quote by Henri Matisse

Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of…

— Philip Guston

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating;…

— Sonia Delaunay

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over…

— Thomas Cole

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of…

— Philip Pearlstein

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct -…

— Jackson Pollock

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened,…

— Kehinde Wiley

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I wanted to…

— Richard Diebenkorn

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