Doe Quote by Salvador Dali

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

— Edgar Degas

Without intent all painting is meaningless.

— Christopher Willard

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My paintings are rubbish.

— David Bailey

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

— John Berger

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,

— Robert Genn

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

— Ken Danby

When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what…

— Lewis Mumford

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

— Georges Braque