Action Quote by Francoise Gilot

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

— Pablo Picasso

In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of…

— Jose Clemente Orozco

Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the…

— William Baziotes

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee,…

— Karel Appel

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

— Annie Dillard

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one…

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Gustave Courbet

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

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way…

— Milton Resnick

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus