Brushes Quote by Aldo Leopold

“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

“Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and…

— James A. Baldwin

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.…

— Squeak Carnwath