Intensity Quote by Julian Schnabel

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them…

— Brian Eno

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer

As far as visual artists, I find inspiration in Henri Rousseau, who painted amazing, dream-like junglescapes without ever leaving France, and who sort of…

— Christopher Moore

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up…

— John Dyer

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus

I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of…

— Kehinde Wiley

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them,…

— John F. Carlson

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised…

— Georg Baselitz

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to…

— Howard Hodgkin

I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts,…

— J. G. Ballard

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

— Nir Hod