Funny Quote by Agnes Martin

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

— Kenyon Cox

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

— Georges Braque

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

— Philip Guston

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with…

— Martine Franck

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik