Backgrounds Quote by William Baziotes

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

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

— Rene Huyghe

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

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

— Jesmyn Ward

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject…

— Kehinde Wiley

“the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.”

— Kathryn Shay

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object'…

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

— Claude Monet

The real subject of every painting is light.

— Claude Monet