Quotes

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overwhelming interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
 * Alice Neel**

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
 * Vincent VanGogh **

People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age. I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
 * Pablo Picasso **

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. //**Edward Hopper**//

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
 * Salvador Dali**

Creativity takes courage.
 * Henri Matisse**

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
 * Leonardo DaVinci**

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
 * Andy Warhol**

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has Salvador Dali

** //"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."// ~ Edgar Degas **

//** " Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." **// ** ~ Eugene Delacroix **

** // "The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools." // ~Thomas Eakins **

~ Paul Gardner  **
 * // "A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places." //

// **"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."** // ** ~ Paul Gaugin **

// **They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my reality."** // **  ~ Frida Kahlo

** // "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." // ~ Michelangelo