Asks Quote by Claude Monet

The real subject of every painting is light.

— Claude Monet

“the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.”

— Kathryn Shay

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred…

— William Baziotes

Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the…

— Pablo Picasso

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the…

— Robert Reynolds

“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

— Henry James

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world,…

— Henry James

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a…

— Eugene Delacroix

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.”

— Boris Pasternak