Breaking point Quote by Luc Tuymans

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

— Jackson Pollock

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy…

— Harold Town

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give…

— Jackson Pollock

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Max Beckmann

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or…

— Lawren Harris

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that…

— Edward Betts

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde