Colour Quote by Piet Mondrian

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only…

— Piet Mondrian

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

— John French Sloan

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

— Kazimir Malevich

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

— Jules Olitski

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya