Academy Quote by James Joseph Sylvester

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration…

— Jacques Maritain

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting

— Edmund Burke

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

— Wangechi Mutu

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

— Thomas Eakins

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This…

— Mark Rothko

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Painting taught literature to describe.

— Orhan Pamuk

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon