Aesthetic Quote by Pablo Picasso

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

— Chuck Close

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

— Sam Francis

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or…

— Lawren Harris

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter…

— Rainer Maria Rilke