Art Quote by Edgar Degas

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

— Salvador Dali

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings.…

— John Currin

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but…

— John Ruskin

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

— Jeet Aulakh

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan