Abstract Quote by Walter Darby Bannard

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the…

— Michele Cassou

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process.…

— Stephen Shore

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in…

— Francis Bacon

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

— Cynthia Daignault

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

— Jules Olitski

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue…

— Squeak Carnwath

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

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

— Wang Jianwei