Assuming Quote by Fernand Leger

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

— Guido Molinari

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract - the idea…

— Kehinde Wiley

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić