Art Quote by Mark Bradford

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not…

— Sergei Bongart

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

— Maurice Denis

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

— Chali 2na

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

— Titian

“To know in order to do, that was my idea. To be in a position to translate the customs, the ideas, the appearance of…

— Gustave Courbet

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to…

— William Morris Hunt

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

— Ian McLeod

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

— David Hockney

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

— Gerhard Richter

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

— Liz Phair

“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?”

— Vladimir Nabokov