Artist Quote by Wanda Koop

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one…

— Hedy Lamarr

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and…

— Vija Celmins

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied…

— Julian Schnabel

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that…

— Kehinde Wiley

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

— Paul Strisik

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

— Jasper Johns

I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

— Oskar Kokoschka

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and…

— Emily Carr

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

— Jackson Pollock

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

— Georgia O'Keeffe