Believe Quote by Burton Silverman

Painting is more important than art.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

— Fred Williams

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

— Pierre Soulages

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— Mason Cooley

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction…

— Kehinde Wiley

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

— Sol LeWitt

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

— Jessica Stockholder