Absolutely nothing Quote by Gerhard Richter

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They…

— Eric Fischl

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet

“... it often occurs that a work of art — even though incomprehensible — remains in the mind, and produces its effect years later,…

— Walter Pach

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

— Agnes Martin

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or…

— Lawren Harris

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro