Language Quote by Balthus

I really like the language of painting.

— Chris Ofili

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct…

— Morris Graves

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

— Marcel Duchamp

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas,…

— John Baldessari

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

— Sergei Eisenstein

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are…

— Jean Dubuffet

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing--…

— Gerhard Richter

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

— Kimon Nicolaides

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time…

— M. F. Husain

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for…

— Vincent Van Gogh