Abandoned Quote by Gerhard Richter

A fragile painting left without a scenery

— Anonymous

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

— Anh Do

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has…

— Pablo Picasso

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is…

— Emily Carr

Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace…

— Titian

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

— George Tooker

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be…

— John Berger

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but…

— John Ruskin

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

— Georges Braque