Artist Quote by El Greco

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

— David Luiz

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

— Tom Wolfe

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein