Able Quote by Richard Diebenkorn

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel,…

— Claude Monet

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find…

— Frank Stella

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

— Jose Parla

It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

— Ron Parker

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

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

— William C. Wright

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

— Alex Katz