Adventure Quote by Sara Genn

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

— Aristotle

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They…

— Eric Fischl

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art,…

— Honore de Balzac

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection.…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

— Michael Heizer

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

— Michelangelo

Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms,…

— Alexander Eliot

Art is when things appear rounded.

— Maurice Denis

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh