Boss Quote by Edward Ruscha

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

— Hans Hofmann

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are…

— Jean Dubuffet

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the…

— Claes Oldenburg

“:Paintings are easy to see," he said after a moment. "Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be…

— Catherine Fisher

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,…

— Diane Ackerman

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

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more…

— Boots Riley

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a…

— Danny Fox

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing--…

— Gerhard Richter

I always thought of words as art supplies.

— Douglas Coupland

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson