Certain Quote by Vija Celmins

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel,…

— Claude Monet

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

— Michele Cassou

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

— Wang Jianwei

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

— Hans Hofmann

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault