Artist Quote by Graham Sutherland

Painting is so much more than the materials.

— Brian Johnson

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

— Georges Braque

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

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

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney