Abstract Quote by Nigel Cooke

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting is another form of thinking.

— Gerhard Richter

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it…

— Pablo Picasso

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which…

— George Frederic Watts

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

— Jasper Johns

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea…

— Joseph Plaskett

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with…

— Ross Bleckner

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct -…

— Jackson Pollock

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr