In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
Howard HodgkinInstinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri MatisseThe idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
Damien HirstThe spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
Damien HirstAnd that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
Donald JuddI'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.
Dennis MillerMost artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Jack LevineSome folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
Norman Rockwell