Artist Quote by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and…

— Edvard Munch

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look…

— Derek R. Audette

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

— Francesco Clemente

It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree.…

— Joshua Reynolds

A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard