Ideas Quote by Ben Nicholson

“Painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.”

— Ben Nicholson

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

— Mark Rothko

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

— Bridget Riley

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Keith Haring

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and…

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Steven Whitney

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst