Am Quote by Julian Schnabel

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm…

— Danny Fox

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

— Damien Hirst

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

— Kehinde Wiley

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and…

— Andrew Forge

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares,…

— Bridget Riley

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik