Painting Quote by Alexandra Johnson

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

— Georges Braque

“Art, science, love, inspiration, ideals—choose out all the words with which humanity is wont, or has been in the past, to be consoled or…

— Lev Shestov

“Mist swirled and spun, like monochrome paints running together on a canvas. Light died in the west, and night came of age.”

— Brandon Sanderson

What is this, an audience or an oil painting?

— Anonymous

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Painted Things I love my work and take pains with it. But today I find the slow pace of composition discouraging. The weather has…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

— Allison Mackie

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.”

— Christian Bobin

“Embracing our challenges and shortcomings illuminates the vivid pigments of our unique watercolor of life. With each stroke of difficulty and dribbles of weakness,…

— Tina Leigh

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus