Long Quote by Mordicai Gerstein

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

— Leon Battista Alberti

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to…

— Claude Monet

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think, 'oh I…

— Donna Tartt

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

— Howard Hodgkin

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and…

— Walter Darby Bannard

I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.

— Rita Ackermann

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

— Millard Sheets

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I…

— Donna Tartt