Appreciation Quote by Semir Zeki

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

— Greil Marcus

“The prevailing mood of the painting is stoicism: one man enduring for the sake of science, the other for subsistence. Given the painting’s intent—the…

— Mary Roach

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down…

— David Milne

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

— John Berger

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

“How much blood was being made to flow for that last show of elegance?”

— C.S. Friedman

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded…

— Kurt Wagner

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

— Guido Molinari

Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when…

— Gerald Brommer

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

— Antoni Tapies