Art Quote by James Elkins

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

— Sidney Nolan

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously…

— Squeak Carnwath

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

— Plutarch

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

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

— Francis Bacon

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

— Barnett Newman

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

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

— Edgar Degas

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

— Thomas S. Buechner

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

Painting is silent poetry.

— Plutarch