Available Quote by John Berger

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

— Paulo Coelho

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

— Paul Cezanne

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience.…

— C. S. Lewis

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne

Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to…

— Leonard Pitts

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects…

— Paul Cezanne

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

— William Stafford

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

— Joshua Reynolds

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud