Painterly Style Quotes

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.