Artist Quote by Jim Rowe

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,…

— Agnes Denes

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from…

— Robert Motherwell

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a…

— Robert Rauschenberg

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

— William Lyon Phelps

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

— Rolf Harris

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

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

— Dee Hock

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea…

— John Emmerling

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

— Gerhard Richter