Artist Quote by Paul Strand

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison…

— Paul Strand

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate…

— Max Beckmann

“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at…

— Eugene Delacroix

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

— Burton Silverman

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

“Embracing our challenges and shortcomings illuminates the vivid pigments of our unique watercolor of life. With each stroke of difficulty and dribbles of weakness,…

— Tina Leigh

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there…

— Voltaire