Painting Quote by El Greco Download Open image “Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.” — El Greco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting Speculation Universality
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 Copy Share Image
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of… — El Greco Copy Share Image
I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it. — El Greco Copy Share Image
I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces. — El Greco Copy Share Image
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco Copy Share Image
Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters — El Greco Copy Share Image
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul. — El Greco Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
