Learning Quote by Ben Nicholson

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

— Ben Nicholson

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

“...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by what lies…

— Sarah Ganz Blyth

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

“If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy, pure and…

— Gustave Flaubert

Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

— Lee Krasner