Animal Quote by Kiki Smith

I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with…

— Kerry James Marshall

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my…

— Hokusai

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

— Orlan

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

— Marcey Jacobson

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

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary…

— E. J. Hughes

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to…

— Sigmar Polke

I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a…

— Willard Wigan

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to…

— Marc Davis

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

— Carly Chaikin

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole…

— Terry Brooks