Form Quote by Philip Pearlstein

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in…

— Elizabeth Peyton

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

— Stephen Karam

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and…

— Werner Herzog

ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so…

— Jane Hirshfield

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear…

— Franz Marc

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and…

— Kerry James Marshall

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

— George Saunders

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

— Pierre Bonnard