Amusement Quote by Max Ernst

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

— Max Ernst

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

— Keith Haring

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

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way…

— Milton Resnick

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian