Art Quote by Ilya Ehrenburg

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've…

— Will Barnet

“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and…

— Neville Weston

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4…

— William Klein

“Early in this century a group of passionate artists in Russia claimed that the essence of art was to make the familiar seem strange.…

— Sueellen Campbell

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

— Claude Monet

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

— LeRoy Neiman

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

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

“A young artist's career is a matter of claiming a place for oneself, of saying, "I am here." Having gone through that phase, a…

— Wafaa Bilal

Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets…

— Robert Longo

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called…

— Joseph Plaskett

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz