Busted Quote by Willem de Kooning

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting…

— David Byrne

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great…

— James Rosenquist

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and…

— Kerry James Marshall

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually…

— Francis Bacon

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They…

— Eric Fischl

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.

— Richard Wollheim