Art Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

— George Tooker

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

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

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

— Pierre Soulages

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

— Pierre Bonnard

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley