Beautiful Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them,…

— John F. Carlson

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

Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.

— Laura van den Berg

“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen…

— Flannery O'Connor

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It often seems…

— Oscar Wilde

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

— Richard Diebenkorn

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come…

— Aristotle

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

— Russell Sherman