Capable Quote by Gerhard Richter

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are…

— Jean Dubuffet

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture -…

— Roger Fry

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult…

— Anselm Kiefer

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

— Francis Bacon

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

— Hans Hofmann