Art Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with…

— Pablo Picasso

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

— Tom Wolfe

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the…

— Robert Reynolds

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

— Thomas Eakins

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in…

— Shea Hembrey

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious…

— Oscar Wilde

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh