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Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

— Arthur Boyd

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...

— Claude Monet

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

— Randy Sanders

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

“Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting…

— Irving Stone

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

— Carl Andre

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at…

— John Updike