Artist Quote by Joseph Jarman

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

— Elizabeth Peyton

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

— Jennifer Stone

Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me,…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

— Fala Chen

Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no…

— Carl Theodor Dreyer

I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an…

— Dana Schutz

All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.

— Henry Glassie

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It…

— Milton Resnick

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde