Art Quote by Yves Klein

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

— Titian

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it,…

— William Hazlitt

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

— Roy Lichtenstein

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

— Gerhard Richter

“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley