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The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

— Peter Greenaway

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can…

— Neil Farber

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded…

— Tom Wolfe

I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see…

— Saschka Unseld

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up…

— Siri Hustvedt

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in…

— Edward Ruscha

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

— Caio Fonseca

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history…

— Kehinde Wiley

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

— Hans Rookmaaker