Can do Quote by Andrew Graham-Dixon

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

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

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

“Painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.”

— Ben Nicholson

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue…

— Squeak Carnwath

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham