Incomplete Quote by Russell Chatham

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

— Robert Breault

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

— Ken Danby

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

— Barnett Newman

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Gustave Courbet

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

— Pierre Bonnard

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the…

— Robert Reynolds

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper