Abstract Quote by Hilary Farr

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints…

— Diane Ackerman

I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they…

— Amy Sherald

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

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'

— Roy Lichtenstein

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should…

— John Constable

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

— Frank Bruno

Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and…

— Juan Gris

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world

— Samuel Johnson

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake…

— Caio Fonseca

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

— Andy Warhol

But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the…

— Gerhard Richter

A purely materialistic art would be...

— Haile Selassie