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  • If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

    Art   Creative   Would Be  
    Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated
  • The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

    Music   Art   World  
  • Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

    Art   Pain   Book  
    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

    Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag
  • I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

    "Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, 1997.
  • The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

    Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”
  • I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

    Art   Painting   Painter  
  • The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

  • The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

    Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”
  • I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

    Art   People   Want  
  • Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

    Art   Weather   Painting  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics
  • I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

    Love   Art   Happy Friday  
  • Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

    Art   Eye   Soul  
  • It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

    Art   Children   Years  
    "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.
  • I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are.

    Art   Independent   Men  
  • The painting has a life of its own

    Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”
  • I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

    Uplifting   Art   Believe  
  • Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

    Beauty   Dance   Art  
    "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".
  • I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

    Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro
  • Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

  • Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

    "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.
  • The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

    Life   Art   Moving  
    1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.
  • Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

    Cheating   Art   Honesty  
    "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.
  • In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

    Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”
  • Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

    Art   Essence   Yellow  
  • For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

    Art   Night   Laughing  
  • I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

  • I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

    Art   Want   Heat  
    "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.
  • Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

    Life   Art   Inspiration  
  • The only thing I know is that I know nothing

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