Life Quote by Barnett Newman

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

— Barnett Newman

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

— Andre Malraux

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee,…

— Karel Appel

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously…

— Squeak Carnwath

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

— Steven Whitney

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or…

— Julian Schnabel

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

“Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don’t follow, it will suffocate your heart.”

— Pawan Mishra

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk