Art Quote by Marlene Dumas

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

— Chuck Close

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

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a…

— Joe Bradley

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in…

— Elizabeth Peyton

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

— Josef Albers

Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times…

— Luc Tuymans

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

— Toni Onley

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

— Willem de Kooning

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke