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Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.

Kazimir Malevich

I'm constantly doing new stuff. I'm always excited. I'm a one-man tornado.

Kenny Scharf

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Kiki Smith

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Louise Bourgeois

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Luis Barragan

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

Lucian Freud

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

Lucian Freud

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

Lucian Freud

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

LeRoy Neiman

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

Larry Poons

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.

Marc Chagall

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.

Marc Chagall

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Morris Graves

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Michael Heizer

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

Mati Klarwein

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

Maria Lassnig

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Robert Rauschenberg

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

Robert Rauschenberg

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

Robert Rauschenberg

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

Mark Rothko

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

Mark Rothko