Abstract Quote by Robert Genn

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them,…

— John F. Carlson

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

— Robert Barry

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to…

— Stephen Beal

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to…

— Simon Schama

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some…

— Chuck Close

My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is…

— Freydoon Rassouli

My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing…

— James Ensor

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

— Frederick Sommer

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake