Art Quote by Joshua Reynolds

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

— Joseph C Zinker

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every…

— Herwarth Walden

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them -…

— William Carlos Williams

Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms,…

— Alexander Eliot

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

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has…

— John Ruskin

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

— Paul Cezanne

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz