Isms Quote by Anonymous

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.

— Hannah Gadsby

“Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss a kind…

— Vincent Price

“For years I’d been awaiting that overriding urge I’d always heard about, the narcotic pining that draws childless women ineluctably to strangers’ strollers in…

— Lionel Shriver

“Creation of a pregnant imagination.”

— Delano Johnson

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus

“Painting is the mother of Photography”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

— Jack Levine

“Certain artists in print or paint flourish, like babies-to-be, in confined spaces.”

— Ian McEwan

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

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

— Balthus