Art Quote by Caspar David Friedrich

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but…

— John Ruskin

“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

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

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting…

— Nita Engle

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas

Art without heart is craft.

— Eric Gibbons

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

— Joan Miro

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

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

— Marc Chagall

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front…

— Leonardo da Vinci