Windows

"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really."

Balthus

"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."

Paul Cézanne

"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings"

George Tooker

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Paul Gauguin

"I shut my eyes
in order to see."

Paul Gauguin

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible."

Norma Jean Harris

"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."

Pablo Picasso

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

Sir Joshua Reynolds

"Painting is easy for those that do not know how, but very difficult for those that do!"

Edgar Degas

"Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something."

Georgia O'Keeffe

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

Paul Cézanne

"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."

Piet Mondrian

"Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind."

Magdalena Abakanowicz