Concepts Quote by Kay WalkingStick

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically…

— Philip Guston

A painted surface is a real, living form.

— Anonymous

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the…

— Janice Tanton

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

— Georges Seurat

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body…

— Leon Battista Alberti

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

— Leon Battista Alberti

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the…

— Carl Safina

You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object;…

— Frank Stella

Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is…

— John Paul Caponigro

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.…

— Squeak Carnwath

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