Ordinary Quote by Joshua L. Goldberg

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

— John Olsen

“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the…

— Donna Tartt

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

— Steven Whitney

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

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

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think, 'oh, I…

— Donna Tartt

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley