Done Quote by John Ruskin

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

— Keith Shackleton

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to…

— Georges Braque

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the…

— Claude Monet

For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the…

— Cynthia Daignault

“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund…

— Alan Lee

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true…

— Louis Auchincloss

In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting,…

— Asger Jorn

“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece for the…

— Oscar Wilde

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

— Matthew Fox

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those…

— Henri Matisse

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

— Gerhard Richter