Chosen Quote by Janice Tanton

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

— Chuck Jones

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the…

— Carl Safina

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body…

— Leon Battista Alberti

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the…

— Lynn Cullen

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The…

— Werner Herzog

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into…

— Hans Hofmann