Destroyed Quote by Jean Fautrier

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our…

— Willem de Kooning

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

— George Tooker

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

— Kazimir Malevich

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

— Joni Mitchell

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to…

— Graham Sutherland

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it…

— Al Pacino

The painting has a life of its own

— Jackson Pollock