Acceptance Quote by Robert Genn

The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as…

— Robert Genn

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is…

— Otto Dix

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time…

— M. F. Husain

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

— Ray Bradbury

“The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real…

— Peter Heller

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

The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is…

— Emily Carr

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

— Oscar Wilde

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

— John Kurtz