I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it…

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

— Pablo Picasso

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the…

— Gerhard Richter

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate…

— Gerhard Richter

Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract - the idea…

— Kehinde Wiley

There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature.…

— A. D. Patel

Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its…

— Gunter Brus

The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which…

— Yves Klein

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take…

— Hans Hofmann

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

— Paul Klee

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a…

— Francis Parker Yockey

Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can arrive at…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

— Raoul Hausmann

The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but…

— Neil MacGregor

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

— Frank Stella