Description Quote by Paul Gauguin

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

— Robert Reynolds

Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations…

— Claude Debussy

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

— Kenneth Noland

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

— Miles Davis

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so…

— Morris Graves

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

— Edith Sitwell

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

— Sun Ra

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

An artist's job is to be interested in things as they are.

— George Saunders

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk