Appreciate Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living…

— Carl Andre

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

— Eugene Delacroix

That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.

— Leon Kossoff

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment…

— May Sarton

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

— Anonymous

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

— Pablo Picasso

“In a world where no one is compelled to work more than four hours a day, every person possessed of scientific curiosity will be…

— Roman Krznaric

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland