Painting Quote by Roland Barthes

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

— Edouard Vuillard

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a…

— Eugene Delacroix

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

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

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge