Body Quote by Max Beckmann

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

— Pierre Bonnard

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

— George Tooker

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 faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

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

— Pierre Soulages

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

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

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way…

— Idris Khan