Accepting Quote by Joseph Plaskett

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

“But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth…

— Oscar Wilde

“As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of…

— Jasper Johns

“Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero, their vision…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of…

— Jasper Johns

“...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with…

— Félix J. Palma

“In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger…

— Adalbert Stifter

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

— Michael Hersch

“I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I…

— Hokusai Katsushika