Ability Quote by Eric Fischl

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and…

— Kerry James Marshall

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is…

— Otto Dix

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz