Behinds Quote by Mark Rothko

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

— H. R. Giger

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

— Ad Reinhardt

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will…

— Ciaran Carson

I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

— Julian Schnabel

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

— Agnes Gund

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

— Georg Baselitz

If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on…

— Kehinde Wiley

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

— Niki de St. Phalle

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they…

— Antoni Tapies

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work!…

— Roy Lichtenstein

You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is…

— Werner Herzog