Able Quote by Michael Craig-Martin

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

— John Piper

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

— Willem de Kooning

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension…

— David Luiz

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to…

— Florence Welch

It was never just about painting everything white, I set out to create comfortable spaces - visually comfortable spaces. My mind always feels a…

— John Pawson

Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting…

— Joan Miro

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

— Jenova Chen

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong…

— Van Day Truex

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

— Aristotle

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure…

— Nan Goldin

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

— Jim Perrin