Ancient Quote by Michele Cassou

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in…

— Shea Hembrey

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the…

— Claes Oldenburg

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes…

— Walter Darby Bannard

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

— Jules Olitski

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

— Gautama Buddha

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

— Gaston Bachelard

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory,…

— Philip Guston

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

— Balthus

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci