Attributes Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the…

— Lynn Cullen

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the…

— Janice Tanton

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

— Charles Sheeler

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body…

— Leon Battista Alberti

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye…

— Richard Schmid

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and…

— Malcolm Morley

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

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