Language Quote by Mike Svob

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

— Balthus

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

— Peter Greenaway

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct…

— Morris Graves

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Painting is the language of the unconscious. It is the language of visualization. It is the language of children. Children think in pictures, hence…

— Osho

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas,…

— John Baldessari

“Art is more than a sum of cultural signs: It is a language both direct and associative, and has a grammar and syntax like…

— David Salle

Anything can be painted without representation.

— Agnes Martin

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time…

— M. F. Husain

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture -…

— Roger Fry