Delight Quote by Oliver Sacks

For me, painting is like meditation.

— Janet Fish

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much…

— Francis Bacon

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

— Allison Mackie

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

— Jamie Wyeth

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

— Steven Whitney

When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds…

— Pierre Alechinsky

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

— Arthur Smith

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

— Ali Banisadr

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at…

— John Updike

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips