Black Quote by Kerry James Marshall

Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant…

— Jacob Collins

I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was…

— Gerhard Richter

I've painted, but I've also done graphics since as long as I can remember. So even people with little to spend could afford it.…

— Georg Baselitz

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it…

— Tracey Emin

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

— Nathan Oliveira

I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to be art.…

— Jan Dibbets

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while…

— Patricia Piccinini

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of…

— Loretta Lux

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations…

— Meg Cabot

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

— Vanessa Paradis

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative…

— Gauri Khan