577 Quotes About Painting

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

I want to reiterate that painting is a medium, it's a way of thinking and it's a way of seeing. I think people often think of painting as a noun, and I think of it as a verb as well as a noun.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.