Artist Quote by James Elkins

“Oil paints were wiser to the human condition, understanding our imperfections and giving us enough time to rework ourselves until we made things right.”

— S. Walden

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

— Paul Cezanne

To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating,…

— James Elkins

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

— Pierre Soulages

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The…

— Edward Hopper

Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and…

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg