Artist Quote by Jasper Johns

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

— Alain de Botton

The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image…

— Sean Scully

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

— Howard Hodgkin

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that…

— Jackson Pollock

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give…

— Jackson Pollock

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself…

— Jasper Johns

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I…

— James Rosenquist

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see…

— Chuck Close

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees,…

— David Hockney

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

— Anna Halprin