Franz Kline

"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people."

Edgar Degas

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."

Frank Auerbach

"It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see."

Alberto Giacometti

"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."

Anselm Keifer

"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move".

Georgia O'Keefe

"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house".

Edward Hopper

"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"

Alberto Giacometti

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Pablo Picasso

"I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived...and the picture that fights for its own life."

George Baslitz

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary".

Pablo Picasso

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

Edward Hopper

"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."

Lucian Freud