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