Canvas Quote by Richard Diebenkorn

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

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

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of…

— Philip Guston

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

— Joseph C Zinker

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

— Pierre Bonnard

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet

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

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

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a…

— Eugene Delacroix

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

— Ali Banisadr