Art Quote by George Tooker

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

— Barnett Newman

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

— Pierre Soulages

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

— Pierre Bonnard

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The…

— Edward Hopper

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

— Steven Whitney

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

— Richard Pousette-Dart

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

— Paul Cezanne

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge