Art Quote by Edvard Munch

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

— Black Francis

Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way…

— Milton Resnick

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

— Edgar Degas

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's…

— Jenny Saville

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— Mason Cooley

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

— Peter Wright

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

— Matthew Collings

What is this, an audience or an oil painting?

— Anonymous