Coincidence Quote by Pierre Alechinsky

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

— Paul Strisik

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

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

— Jasper Johns

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget…

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

— Edgar Degas

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

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

— Leonardo da Vinci