Arriving Quote by Jackson Pollock

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and…

— H. R. Giger

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

— Paul Auster

I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump out into…

— Tehching Hsieh

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and…

— Yves Tanguy

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture…

— Richard Schmid

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

— Philip Guston

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

— Nigel Cooke