Art Quote by Philip Pearlstein

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

— John French Sloan

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

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied…

— Julian Schnabel

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

— Toi Derricotte

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's…

— Jenny Saville