Communication Quote by Francis Bacon

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing--…

— Gerhard Richter

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do…

— Sam Messer

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 not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you…

— Frank Stella

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

— Paul Cezanne