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The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

Georges Rouault

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

Gerhard Richter

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

Gerhard Richter

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

Helen Frankenthaler

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

Hans Haacke

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

Howard Hodgkin

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

Howard Hodgkin

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

Howard Hodgkin

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Howard Hodgkin

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Howard Hodgkin

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

Howard Hodgkin

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

Howard Hodgkin

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Henri Matisse

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

Julie Mehretu

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Jackson Pollock

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Jackson Pollock

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Jackson Pollock

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Joshua Reynolds

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Joshua Reynolds

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

James Whistler

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

Dan Colen