Rufino Tamayo (Oaxaca 1899-1991 Oaxaca)
"Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere."

Jean Edouard Vuillard ( Cuiseaux 1868-1940 La Baule)
"I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self."

Paul Sérusier ( Paris 1864-1927 Morlaix)
"Beauty is the love that we devote to an object."

Paul-emile Borduas (Quebec 1905-1960 Paris)

Jean-Paul Riopelle (Quebec 1923-2002 Quebec) "When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate."

Joan Mitchell (Chicago 1925-1992 Paris)

Alfred Leslie (Bronx 1927- )

Michael Goldberg (Bronx 1924-2007 Manhattan)

Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. (Portland 1922-1993 Berkeley)
"Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting."

Andrew Warhola (Pennsylvania 1928 - 1987 New York)
"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696 - 1770 Venice)

Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten 1862 - 1918 Viena)
"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."

Jeanne Hébuterne (Seine et Marne 1898 - 1920 Paris)

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (Livorno 1884 - 1906 Paris)
"What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race."

Antonio López García (Tomelloso, España 1936- )