Angle Quote by Walter J. Phillips

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great…

— Piet Mondrian

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone…

— David Mamet

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

— Thomas S. Buechner

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if…

— Anna Katharine Green

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble…

— Oscar Wilde

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

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples,…

— J.D. Salinger

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration…

— Jacques Maritain