Existence Quote by Pierre Soulages

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.

— Robert Henri

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually…

— Francis Bacon

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.

— Titian

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created…

— Andre Malraux

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

— Lucian Freud

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb