Articles Quote by Andy Warhol

This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves…

— Cennino Cennini

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

— Lee Krasner

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a…

— Marcel Duchamp

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

— Franklin Carmichael

The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face…

— Luigi Ghirri

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known.…

— Julia Cameron

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

“The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy stretching that…

— Henry Miller

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery

— Francis Bacon Sr

“Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images with vague messages and symbols that keep you guessing and wondering…

— Mindy Fordham