Art Quote by Kehinde Wiley

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

— Willow Smith

It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to…

— Walter J. Phillips

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

— Robert Longo

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

— Laura Owens

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

— Samuel R. Delany

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

— Jerry Saltz

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our…

— Willem de Kooning

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

— Chuck Close

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain…

— Brian Froud

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