Art Quote by Pablo Picasso

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be…

— Gerhard Richter

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as…

— Ben Shahn

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously…

— Squeak Carnwath

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

— Kehinde Wiley

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you…

— Henri Matisse

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with someone. The…

— David Salle

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing--…

— Gerhard Richter

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren