Act Quote by Robert Irwin

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

— Keith Haring

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

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 transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling…

— Caio Fonseca

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

— Honore de Balzac

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

— Lee Krasner