Effects Quote by William Baziotes

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

— Mark Stevens

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography…

— Marcel Duchamp

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

— E. J. Hughes

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the…

— Bill Henson

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in…

— Julian Schnabel

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well…

— Paul Caponigro

What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as…

— James Nares

For me, painting is like meditation.

— Janet Fish