Justify Quote by Beth Orton

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

That's the beauty of art: art is universal.

— John Kani

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that…

— David Cronenberg

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

— Francis Bacon

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I…

— Donna Tartt

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

— John McCormack

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

— Paul Cezanne

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

— Edgar Alwin Payne