Century Quote by James Elkins

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

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good…

— Claude Monet

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

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

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and…

— Kerry James Marshall

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

— Toni Onley

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to…

— Howard Hodgkin

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel