Canvas Quote by John Baldessari

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are…

— 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 a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

— Balthus

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Language is not unlike art in that words contain values of lights and darks, hues and tonalities, texture and sensuality. Words can paint complex…

— Elisa Lorello

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

— Marcel Duchamp

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

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

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

— Sergei Eisenstein

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be…

— Gerhard Richter

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

— Hans Hofmann

I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the Renaissance that…

— David Salle