Quote by Terry Mixon

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

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere…

— Gerhard Richter

“Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

— Ram Dass

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

— Maria Mitchell

“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.”

— Christina Baker Kline

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and…

— Werner Herzog

“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate.”

— Donna Tartt

Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way…

— Milton Resnick

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

— David Hockney

“And there in the middle, high above Prechistensky Boulevard, amidst a scattering of stars on every side but catching the eye through its closeness…

— Leo Tolstoy