Action Quote by Pablo Picasso

“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that…

— Francoise Gilot

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while…

— Andre Malraux

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

— Alix Smith

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject…

— Kehinde Wiley

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see…

— Saschka Unseld

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

— Steven Whitney

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures…

— Joyce Carol Oates