Alive Quote by Leon Battista Alberti

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

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

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

— Giorgio Vasari

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art,…

— Amy Sherald

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

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be…

— Edmund Burke

There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going…

— Nigel Cooke

From today, painting is dead.

— Paul Delaroche

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

— Lila Acheson Wallace

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,

— Leonard Baskin