Accused Quote by Luc Tuymans

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40…

— Joe Bradley

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in…

— Thomas Kinkade

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers of time,…

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and…

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

— Salman Rushdie

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

— Joe Bradley

I often say time is malleable, but the reception of an artwork is malleable too. When the culture changes, the view and the way…

— Sanford Biggers

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the…

— James Elkins

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

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