Artist Quote by Yves Klein

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on…

— Robert Genn

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

— Mark Twain

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

— Jeremy Taylor

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

“The fire crackled up the stairs. It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly…

— Ray Bradbury

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took…

— Paul de Man

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

— Robert Ryman

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically…

— Philip Guston

Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there.…

— Robert Henri

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is;…

— Philip Guston

“the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns”

— Natasha Trethewey