Painting Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

The painting has a life of its own

— Jackson Pollock

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

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

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.

— Anonymous

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

— Jackson Pollock

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

— John Piper

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

— Paul Cezanne

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think, 'oh I…

— Donna Tartt

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

— Harold Rosenberg

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

— Pierre Bonnard

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

— Barnett Newman