Figures Quote by Marlene Dumas

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

— Sidney Nolan

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

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

— Lila Acheson Wallace

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or…

— Lawren Harris

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble…

— Oscar Wilde

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but…

— John Ruskin

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be…

— Anonymous

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

— Balthus