Art Quote by Christopher Moore

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having…

— Georg Baselitz

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

“The great French diarist Jules Renard (1864-1910) had small interest in non-literary art forms. When Ravel approached him wanting to set five of his…

— Julian Barnes

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

“I wrote one line about every painting I saw and then did the same in the street: what sight isn't a painting.”

— Zach Savich

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

— Paul Klee

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

“I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I…

— Oscar Wilde

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold