I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
Euan Uglow
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
Alice Neel
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
Cy Twombly
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Eckhart Tolle
I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.
Peter Doig
I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
Diego Rivera
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Andrew Wyeth
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
M.C. Escher
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
Giorgio Morandi
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
William Dobell
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
Banksy
I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
Bo Diddley
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
Henry Moore
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Renoir
I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
Mark Rothko
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Damien Hirst
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
Rumi
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
Jean Michel Basquiat
