Century Quote by Balthus

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be…

— John Berger

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a way of…

— David Salle

There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going…

— Nigel Cooke

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

— Joseph Plaskett

From today, painting is dead.

— Paul Delaroche

Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an…

— Guity Novin

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to…

— Gus Van Sant

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in…

— Philip Pearlstein

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and…

— Werner Herzog

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno