Bigger Quote by James Rosenquist

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because…

— Mark Ryden

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place…

— Mark Rothko

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into…

— Carl Andre

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time…

— Richard Schmid

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where…

— Andy Summers

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

— Neil Welliver

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to…

— Michael Audain

The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object…

— Robert Barry

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

— Howard Hodgkin