Depth Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the…

— Carl Safina

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

— George Henry Lewes

“A strong visual imagination acts as a magnet to draw the visualised into reality.”

— Anupama Garg

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

— Thomas S. Buechner

It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility…

— George Eliot

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense…

— Christian D Larson

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring