Abstract Quote by Jean Dubuffet

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

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language,…

— Gustave Courbet

In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very…

— Robert Motherwell

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

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the…

— Claes Oldenburg

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas,…

— John Baldessari

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

— Sidney Nolan

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture -…

— Roger Fry

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

— Robert Delaunay

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

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci