Determine Quote by Robert Reynolds

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred…

— William Baziotes

The real subject of every painting is light.

— Claude Monet

The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

— Rene Huyghe

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject…

— Kehinde Wiley

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

— Barnett Newman

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

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

— Leonardo da Vinci