Areas Quote by Mary Beth McKenzie

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them?…

— Mordicai Gerstein

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

— Andrew McDermott

It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

— Richard Diebenkorn

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine…

— Ilya Kabakov

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it…

— Paul Cezanne

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I…

— Andrew Wyeth

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake