Louvre Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

— Rebecca Miller

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

— Pablo Picasso

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

— Alberto Giacometti

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

— Jeffrey Archer

From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador…

— Anthony Browne

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile…

— Claude Monet

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

— David Hockney

For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the…

— Cynthia Daignault

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner…

— Agnes Varda

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at…

— Carolina Herrera

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

— Jeff Koons