Painting Quote by Robert Ryman Download Open image “What painting is, is exactly what people see.” — Robert Ryman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting People
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful. — Sidney Nolan Copy Share Image
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart 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
“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
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
