Artist Quote by Hans Hofmann

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing--…

— Gerhard Richter

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters…

— Hans Hofmann

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne

“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”

— Lisa Fantino

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

— Plutarch

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in…

— Edward Ruscha

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

— Damian Loeb

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

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

— James Elkins