Aesthetic Quote by Harold Rosenberg

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander

The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a…

— Julie Mehretu

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what can be…

— John Berger

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

— Black Francis

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and…

— Jeff Koons

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels…

— Cynthia Daignault

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

— Robert Ryman

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the…

— James Elkins