Details Quote by Ken Danby

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Without intent all painting is meaningless.

— Christopher Willard

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

— Georges Braque

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be…

— John Berger

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

— Tom Robbins

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

Painting is more important than art.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

— John Berger

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

— Toi Derricotte