Facts Quote by Mary Pratt

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

— John Kurtz

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'

— Roy Lichtenstein

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

— Roger de Grey

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber