Abstraction Quote by Wu Guanzhong

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Piet Mondrian

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the sky, filtered…

— Megan Rich

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

— Jackson Pollock

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

— Edouard Vuillard

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg