Art Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

— John French Sloan

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it.…

— John Slattery

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

— David Luiz

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg