Color Quote by Alton Tobey

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

— Miles Davis

Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random…

— Brandon Boyd

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty…

— Hilla von Rebay

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

— Wang Jianwei

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

— Walter J. Phillips

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be…

— Peter Doig

A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion…

— Claire Messud

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

— Yann Martel

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke