Drawing Quote by Theodore Robinson

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

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find…

— Frank Stella

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

— Agnes Martin

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

— Max Ernst

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

— Robert Motherwell

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

— Mark Rothko

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and…

— Richard Phillips

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

— John Berger

My paintings are wiser than I am.

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Agnes Martin

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

— Ben Eine