Difficult Quote by Dore Ashton

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a…

— Donald Barthelme

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

— Gerhard Richter

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in…

— Robert Motherwell

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single…

— Thomas Hoving

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

— Brahmananda Saraswati