21st century Quote by Kehinde Wiley

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least…

— Susan Minot

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

— Jasper Johns

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

— Max Beckmann

Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a…

— James Elkins

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They…

— Eric Fischl

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber