Communication Quote by Georges Braque

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

— Ken Danby

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

Without intent all painting is meaningless.

— Christopher Willard

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

— Joyce Cary

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to…

— Graham Sutherland

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

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be…

— Anonymous

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find…

— Frank Stella