“The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.” Quote by Toni Onley
“I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.” NeedsHomeSilenceSkyLandTravelLeavingAncientDisturbingConverses Author:Toni Onley
“The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.” HoursHalfLifetimePlusWatercolors Author:Toni Onley
“Loneliness is not a fault but a condition of existence.” ExistenceConditionsLonelinessLonelyFaultsBeing Lonely Author:Ivan Albright
“Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.” Colour Book:Chromophobia Source: Chromophobia
“I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.” IfsLittlesUseFormExistenceBreakBecomingPureEverydayColourDetachedTranscendental Author:David Batchelor
“Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.” WayIdeasCertainMaterials Author:David Batchelor
“The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.” UseMaterialsEssentials Author:David Batchelor
“The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.” WorldLooksArtCultureSoundMassSlaveBitesSuperficialArt WorldSound BitesMass Culture Author:Matthew Collings
“The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.” ArtIdeasWholeFormArt IsUseless Author:Matthew Collings
“What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.” TodayPastHappenedPaintingSerious Author:Matthew Collings