Artist Quote by Sigmar Polke

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

— Peter Doig

Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp.…

— David Bowie

“I was also, slowly, to learn that there were painters whom you grew out of (like the Pre-Raphaelites); painters you grew into (Chardin); painters…

— Julian Barnes

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think…

— Laura Owens

All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of this in…

— Georg Baselitz

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to…

— Howard Hodgkin

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called…

— Joseph Plaskett

I am not a juicy painter.

— Andrew Wyeth

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

— Robert Baldwin Ross

My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I was growing…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

— Claude Monet