Communism Quote by Pablo Picasso

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

— Anonymous

Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and…

— Juan Gris

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

— Gerhard Richter

Anything can be painted without representation.

— Agnes Martin

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

— Bob Ross

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

People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work.…

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

— Ernest Renan

Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the…

— Karl Marx

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

— Pat Steir

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso