Excellence Quote by Philip Guston

Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it…

— Laura Harris

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

— Kate Bush

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

— Serj Tankian

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander

For me, painting is like meditation.

— Janet Fish

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

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

— Barnett Newman

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you…

— Joe Bradley

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

— Niki de St. Phalle

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice…

— Ben Shahn

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg