Artist Quote by Robert Ryman Download Open image “The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.” — Robert Ryman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Giving Painting Painting Pleasure Pleasure Purpose Purpose Painting Real Real Purpose
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of… — George Inness Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are, it's an… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others. — John Kurtz Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do… — Robert Ryman Copy Share Image
I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface. — Robert Ryman Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
