Five Quote by Robert Genn

I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth.

— Alan Bean

It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered…

— Banksy

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

— David Hockney

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

— Richard MacDonald

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

— Marcel Duchamp

Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living…

— Kehinde Wiley

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.

— Lucien Smith

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

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

— Brion Gysin

A thousand painters can paint for a 1,000 years, but can't make a work of art as beautiful as you.

— Anonymous