Art Quote by Wassily Kandinsky

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred…

— William Baziotes

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

— Scott Avett

As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.

— Jesmyn Ward

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide…

— Francis Bacon

“In making art you need to give yourself room to respond authentically, both to your subject matter and to your materials. Art happens between…

— David Bayles

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the…

— Robert Reynolds

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

— Raoul Peck

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to…

— Gus Van Sant