Amount Quote by Jerry Saltz

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at.…

— Lucian Freud

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized…

— Ala Bashir

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that…

— Michael Chekhov

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

“To Vincent, his art was a record of his life more true, more revealing (“how deep—how infinitely deep”) even than the storm of letters…

— Steven Naifeh

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older…

— Eric Hoffer

“Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to…

— Henry James

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus