Art Quote by Werner Herzog

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the…

— Janice Tanton

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

— Chuck Jones

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have…

— H. R. Giger

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion…

— Herbert Read

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their…

— Ellsworth Kelly

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a…

— Marc Chagall

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical…

— Julian Schnabel

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship…

— Ben Nicholson

People see so many things in the paintings. Although I never think of them, it charms me a little bit that people actually project…

— Caio Fonseca