Art Quote by Siri Hustvedt

If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the…

— Luc Tuymans

The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting…

— James Elkins

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

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

“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

I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see…

— Saschka Unseld

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

— Pierre Bonnard

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously…

— Squeak Carnwath

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory,…

— Philip Guston

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

— Ali Banisadr

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the…

— James Elkins