Accuracy Quote by Paul Cezanne

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

— Wang Jianwei

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.

— Richard Wollheim

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag