Deals Quote by Honore de Balzac

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

— Georges Braque

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

“Everything's a painting, anyway," Fawn said. "That's what I think. We live inside a giant painting, only we can't see who's holding the paintbrush.…

— Rose Christo

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

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

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

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

— Jean Fautrier

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

— James Rosenquist

More than a process, painting is being possessed...

— Philip Guston

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

— Sam Francis

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary