Complicated Quote by Thomas Eakins

Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

— Chai Lu

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley

It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

Painting is another form of thinking.

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

— John French Sloan

What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if…

— Edward Frenkel