Attitude Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

— Francis Bacon

I felt like I was a bit more respected when I started to paint. It was like revealing my diary, but in a different…

— Heart Evangelista

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but…

— John Ruskin

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

— Balthus

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

— Balthus

I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment…

— May Sarton

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas

“...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.”

— Amy Tan

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

— Barnett Newman

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter