Accelerate Quote by Nigel Cooke

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

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

— Ali Banisadr

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

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

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

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

— Luc Tuymans

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They…

— Eric Fischl

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a…

— Joe Bradley