Painting Quote by David Salle

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

— Berthe Morisot

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

The real subject of every painting is light.

— Claude Monet

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

— Arthur Smith

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

— Saša Stanišić

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

— William Dobell

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov