Artist Quote by Thomas Gainsborough

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Oil paints were wiser to the human condition, understanding our imperfections and giving us enough time to rework ourselves until we made things right.”

— S. Walden

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

— Dore Ashton

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

— Brahmananda Saraswati

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

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 painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

— Jack Levine

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any…

— James Elkins