Arrangements Quote by Walter J. Phillips

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

— Joe Bradley

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

— Wang Jianwei

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

— Pierre Bonnard

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without…

— Diego Rivera

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Painting is so much more than the materials.

— Brian Johnson

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

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

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

— Alberto Moravia

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

— Toni Onley

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often…

— Chris Ofili