Arise Quote by Eli Siegel

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

— James Rosenquist

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

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

— Steven Whitney

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

— Kiki Smith

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or…

— Lawren Harris

I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion…

— Douglas Portway

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects…

— Paul Cezanne

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the…

— Carl Safina

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles