Poems are paintings with sound, and paintings are silent poems. [Ancient Greece] Simonides: "On the Characteristics of Art"

Painting is the only imitator of all visible things in nature. [Meaning] Leonardo da Vinci: "On Painting"

Painting is indeed a science, and is the legitimate daughter of nature, because it arises from nature. [Meaning] Leonardo da Vinci: "On Painting"

The works we love refer to those paintings that are born from nature. Otherwise, all works are pretentious and empty. [French] Miller: "Threads"

There is nothing more real than the fantasy I created in the painting, the rest is just sand. [French] Delacroix: "On the Characteristics of Art"

Among the poems of Aji Mojie, there are paintings within the poems. When observing the paintings of Mojie, there are poems within the paintings. [Middle] Su Shi: "Shumojie Lantian Mist and Rain Picture"

Therefore, artists have three elements; the first is natural objects, the second is thinking, and the third is beautification. Yuan art must have these three elements, so the alienation from other things is extremely strict. [Middle] Lu Xun: "Collections from the Collection"

Landscape painting describes the nature of nature and also describes our hearts. [Middle] Huang Binhong: "Quotations from Huang Binhong's Paintings"

The ancients said that "a country is like a painting", but it is precisely the country that is not as good as a painting. Paintings are artificially cropped to perfection. [Middle] Huang Binhong: "Huang Binhong's Painting Quotations"

For me, painting is a silk fabric, the warp is the expressive part, and the weft is the architectural or abstract part. [French] Gris: "Selected Essays on European Modern Painting"

Painting is an art that makes a flat surface come alive. [France] Glaize: "Selected Essays on European Modern Painting"

Painting is a silent and motionless declaration. [France] Glaize: "Selected Essays on European Modern Painting"

Painting moves from an ideal place to a vivid reality. Through the accurate depiction of details, it seeks to reproduce the appearance of real phenomena. [Germany] Hegel: "Aesthetics"

Having a painting in the room is equivalent to hanging an idea. [English] Reynolds: "Essay"

Art integrates people's hands, mind, and soul. [English] Reynolds: "Two Roads"

No one can express things better than words, and no one is good at painting when they are preserved in form. [Middle] Lu Ji: "On the Characteristics of Art"

The painter always knows the admonitions, and the ups and downs, thousands of years of loneliness, can be learned from the pictures. [Middle] Xie He: "Preface to the Record of Ancient Paintings"

Foreign masters are blessed with good fortune and gain the source of their hearts. [Middle] Zhang Yanyuan: "Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties"

The husband painter is an enlightened person, helps people's ethics, is capable of magical changes, detects subtleties, has the same effect as the six books, and has the same luck in the four seasons. [Middle] Zhang Yanyuan: "Records of Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties? Narrating the Origin of Paintings"

The matter of painting, the inner destiny is revealed at the tip of the pen, and changes in a trance, just like the appropriate things, which is enough to inspire people's high ambitions and inspire people's majesty. . [Middle] Dong Qichang: "Rongtai Collection"

Studying painting nourishes one's temperament, and can wash away irritability, break loneliness and boredom, relieve restlessness, and welcome calmness. [Middle] Wang Yu: "Dongzhuang On Painting"

The painter is the intermediary between nature and man, the reproducer of natural creations, and his spirit must encompass all things natural. This can only be done by learning from nature. [Meaning] Leonardo da Vinci: "On Painting"

The reason why a painter is a painter is because he sees things that others can only vaguely feel or vaguely glimpse but cannot see. [Meaning] Croce: "Principles of Aesthetics"

The elements of literati painting are, first, character; second, knowledge; third, talent; fourth, thought. With these four springs, it can be perfected. [Middle] Chen Hengke: "The Value of Literati Painting"

A good painter should depict two main things; - people and his thoughts and intentions. [Meaning] Leonardo da Vinci: "On Painting"

Color can speak all languages. [English] Edison: "Random Thoughts"

If it is a landscape painting, I like the kind of painting that makes me want to linger in it; if it is a painting depicting women, I like the kind of painting that makes me can't help but want to The kind of painting that caresses her. [French] Renoir: "Talking about Painting"

Painting is not about slavishly copying the subject matter, but about finding harmony among countless relationships. [Method] Senet: "Aesthetic Essays"

The production of low-grade paintings is due to the requirement to represent everything, so the whole is trapped in detailed description, and dullness is the result. [French] Gao Geng: "Selected Essays on European Modern Painting"

The artist can transform, if his various transformations are expressive and beautiful.

[French] Gao Geng: "Selected Essays on European Modern Painting Schools"

The painter was too careful about his hair and lost his appearance. [Middle] "Huainanzi? On Lin Xun"

Although there are six methods of painting, it is rare to be able to do them all, but from ancient times to the present, each one is good at one. What are the six laws? First, the charm is vivid; second, the bone method is used with brushes; third, it is the image of the object; fourth, it is based on the category, and the fifth is the management position; sixth, it is the transfer and imitation of writing. [Middle] Xie He: "Preface to the Record of Ancient Paintings"

Among the painting methods, ink and wash are the best, bringing out the nature of nature and making a contribution to creation. [Middle] Wang Wei: "Landscape Jue"

The image of an object must be similar in shape, and the shape must be complete with its bones. The bones and shapes are all based on the idea and return to the brush, so many painters are good at calligraphy. [Middle] Zhang Yanyuan: "Records of Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties? On Six Methods of Painting"

If you look at the painting based on its charm, then the shape will be among them. [Middle] Zhang Yanyuan: "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past? On Six Methods of Painting"

There are six essentials in painting: the first is Qi, the second is rhyme, the third is thinking, the fourth is scenery, the fifth is brushwork, and the sixth is ink. . [Middle] Jing Hao: "Notes on Brushwork"

The most difficult thing to do is to create a unique style of painting. Clumsy in the rules of the square and circle, disdainful in the study of painting, the brushwork is simple and the shape is natural, it cannot be modeled, it is out of intention. [Middle] Huang Xiufu: "Record of Famous Paintings in Yizhou"

When talking about paintings, they are similar in shape, and they are seen next to children. [Middle] Su Shi: "The Broken Branches Drawn by the Master of the Book of Yanling"

The difficulty in conveying the spirit lies in the eyes. [Middle] Su Shi: "Shu Chen Huai Li Chuan Shen"

The white in the painting is the painting within the painting, which is also the painting outside the painting. [Middle] Hua Lin: "The Secret of the Southern Sect"

"The perfect thing is impossible" does not mean it is impossible. The law that cannot be done is the supreme law. [Chinese] Shi Tao: "Quotes from Monk Paintings of Bitter Melon? Changes"

What is external taste? If the pen is incapable but has method, the shape seems to be tangible but intangible. [Middle] Zheng Ji: "A Brief Introduction to the Study of Painting in Dream House? On Meaning"

The beauty of painting lies in the balance between similarity and dissimilarity. Too much likeness is considered kitsch, while too little likeness is seen as deceiving the world. [Middle] Qi Baishi: "Qi Baishi Talks about Art"

This is a real painting that is absolutely similar and never resembles an object. [Middle] Huang Binhong: "Huang Binhong's Painting Quotations"

When painting, the similarity that is not similar should be regarded as the true similarity. [Chinese] Huang Binhong: "Huang Binhong's Painting Quotations"

Paintings have muscles and bones only when they are written. [Middle] Li Xiangming: "The Biography of Li Kuchan"

I tell the painters that no one should copy the style of others, otherwise he is only qualified to be the disciple of nature in art, not the son of nature. [Meaning] Leonardo da Vinci: "On Painting"

One should not have a concept in advance. Every painting is an exploration. When I face a blank canvas, I never know what will come out of it. [French] Braque: "Selected Essays on European Modern Painting"

It is not that a person paints the painting he wants, but that he strives to paint the painting that can be painted in his time. [France] Jean Bazin: "Selected Essays on European Modern Painting"

There is nothing more difficult for an artist than painting a rose, because he must forget all the roses he has painted before in order to create . [France] Matisse: "Selected Essays on European Modern Painting"

A painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. [French] Valery: "Bad Thoughts"

Don't copy my paintings, it has no health benefits. 〔Holland〕Rembrandt: "Collection of Letters"

New ideas are found in the law, and wonderful principles are expressed outside the boldness. [Middle] Su Shi: "Book of Wu Daozi's Paintings"

There is not a single stroke of modern masters that does not resemble the ancients, and most of them do not resemble the ancients. That is to say, there is no portrait, which means that there is no painting. [Middle] Yuan Hongdao: "The Collection of Yuan Zhonglang? Preface to the Collection of Bamboo Forest"

Before the ancients made laws, I don't know what the ancients' laws were? After the ancients legislated, they did not allow modern people to deviate from the ancient laws. For thousands of years, modern people have been unable to get anywhere. Learning from the traces of the ancients but not from the heart of the ancients will lead to failure. [Middle] Shi Tao: "Postscript to the Poems on Paintings by Dadizi"

If knowledge is limited to the similar, it will not be broad, so a gentleman can only use the past to open up the present. [Chinese] Shi Tao: "Quotes from Monk Paintings of Balsam Melon? Changes"