Areas Quote by Mary Beth McKenzie

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

— Ken Danby

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...

— Claude Monet

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

— Stephen Curry

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

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose…

— Pierre Soulages

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake