6 quotes about painting

**“The fight for life”** by **Eugène Delacroix** *( photo author: jean louis mazieres . Source: flickr)*

Art philosophy

6 quotes about painting

What vanity is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

For an artist, freedom is as essential as talent and intelligence.

Maxime Gorki (1868-1936)

**“Melting Landscape “**, by **Mark Chadwick** *( Photo author: **Mark Chadwick** . Source: flickr)*

The novelty in painting does not consist in a subject as yet unseen, but in the good and new disposition and expression, and so of common and old, the subject becomes singular and new.

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)

There is no more popular art, because there are no more people.

André Malraux (1901-1976)

**“Eliezer and Rebecca”** (Detail), by **Nicolas Poussin** *( Photo source: commons.wikimedia)*

I do neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for art that has nothing to do with Art, because art has everything to do with life.

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Painting is the longest and most difficult profession. He needs erudition like a composer, but he also needs performance like a violin.

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)