Done Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Repetition is the death of art.

— Robin Green

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action…

— Paul Valéry

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

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

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

— Herbert Read

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our…

— Willem de Kooning

From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense.…

— Arnold Gehlen

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg