Ability Quote by Joe Bradley

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

For me, painting is like meditation.

— Janet Fish

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

I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are, it's an…

— Pittacus Lore

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around…

— Claes Oldenburg

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least…

— Susan Minot

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual…

— Pat Steir

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when…

— Oliver Sacks