Behave Quote by Frank Auerbach

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.

— Ferdinand Hodler

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

— Gerhard Richter

Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under…

— Titian

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

— Leonardo da Vinci