PAINTING : All gardening is landscape painting. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

PAINTING : Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. (Claude Monet: French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, 1840-1926)

PAINTING : I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

PAINTING : I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall. (Pierre Renoir: French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style, 1841-1919)

PAINTING : I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

PAINTING : Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

PAINTING : If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. (Edward Hopper: U.S. realist painter, 1882-1967)

PAINTING : It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colors, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

PAINTING : Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

PAINTING : Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. (Edgar Degas: French Impressionist artist known for his paintings, pastels, sculptures, prints, drawings, and is regarded as a founder of Impressionism, 1834-1917)

PAINTING : Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. (Simonides: Greek lyric poet, c.556—c.468 B.C.E.)

PAINTING : Painting is the song of the brush. (Unknown Source: )

PAINTING : Painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. (Joan Miro: Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, 1893-1983)