Answers Quote by Luc Tuymans

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history…

— David Rockefeller

I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

— Oskar Kokoschka

Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't…

— Gary Busey

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

— John Olsen

I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea.…

— Guido Molinari

“It is easier to recognize failures of technique rather than those of strategy or purpose, and simpler to ask "How do I paint this…

— Frank Chimero

“Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—” “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them and tell…

— Ahmad Ardalan

The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way:…

— Sergei Bongart

Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret about the…

— Munira Mirza

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

— Chuck Close

It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art…

— Harold Rosenberg