Accidents Quote by Mike Svob

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

— Francis Bacon

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

— Annie Dillard

At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing…

— Glenn Ligon

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would…

— Anthony Storr

“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.”

— Leonhard Emmerling

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make life easier.…

— Philip Taaffe

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

— Jackson Pollock

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

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti