Appearing Quote by Mason Cooley

“Artists who painted natural curiosities found themselves documenting a world emerging and disappearing at the same time, a brief encounter as species heading for…

— Kim Todd

These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being…

— Carey Mercer

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

— Howard Hodgkin

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

— Mason Cooley

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

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

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their…

— Georges Braque

On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst…

— Banksy

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm…

— Catherine Deneuve

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

— Ron Parker

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life,…

— Caravaggio

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley