Evoke Quote by Keith Crown

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

— Guido Molinari

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without…

— Robert Rauschenberg

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and…

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

— Frank Stella

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred…

— William Baziotes

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg