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• Flesh and meat are life! If I paint red meat as I paint bodies it is just because I find it very beautiful.
  Francis Bacon Quotes - Artists
• Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
  Francis Bacon Quotes - Artists
• I love my old paintings as postulates, as fresh starting points, but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
  Georg Baselitz Quotes - Artists
• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
  Georg Baselitz Quotes - Artists
• I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
  Jean Michel Basquiat Quotes - Artists
• People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
  Salvador Dali Quotes - Artists
• If one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. No knowledge. I do not want to know him at all. I want only to see what is there, the outside. The inner follows by itself. It is mirrored in the visible.
  Otto Dix Quotes - art advice - Artists
• If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it's not all art. Some of it's design, some of it's illustration, some of it's graphics, some of it's concept, some of it's business and some of it, hopefully, is art.
  Ken Done Quotes - Artists
• What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.
  Marlene Dumas Quotes - Woman Artists - Artists
• You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.
  Clement Greenberg Quotes - Art Critics
• I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. I come into the studio very fearfully, I creep in to see what happened the night before. And the feeling is one of, "My God, did I do that?".
  Philip Guston Quotes - Artists
• Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
  Philip Guston Quotes - Artists
• Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
  Damien Hirst Quotes - Artists
• I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
  Damien Hirst Quotes - British Artists
• When I paint, I paint under the dictate of feeling or sensing, and the outcome all the time is supposed to say something.
  Hans Hofmann Quotes - Artists
• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.
  Edward Hopper Quotes - Artists
• The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
  Thomas Kinkade Quotes - Artists
• Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.
  Paul Klee Quotes - my art - Artists
• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.
  Roy Lichtenstein Quotes - Artists
• A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
  Henri Matisse Quotes - art advice - Artists
• I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
  Henri Matisse Quotes - Artists
• No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
  Edvard Munch Quotes - Artists
• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - Spanish Artists
  
• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - Spanish Artists
  
• There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - color - nature - amazing - Spanish Artists
  
• Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - Spanish Artists
  
• I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - Spanish Artists
• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
  Rembrandt Quotes - Artists
• How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
  Gerhard Richter Quotes - Artists
• If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.
  James Rosenquist Quotes - Artists
• Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
  Henri Rousseau Quotes - Artists
• I felt a tremendous affinity with Van Goghs deep feeling for the things he painted and how he exaggerated the colors of sky, chairs, faces, to bring them to almost more than life.
  Susan Rothenberg Quotes - Female Artists - Artists
• The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.
  Mark Rothko Quotes - Artists
• I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.
  Jenny Saville Quotes - Artists
• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
  Donald Trump Quotes - my art - Business People
• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
  Oscar Wilde Quotes - Novelists - Poets
• It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes - Artists
• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes - Artists
• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that. But have I set my heart on my work being a success? A thousand times no. I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes - Artists
• I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - American Artists
  
• I paint anybody, anybody that asks me.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - American Artists
  
• My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - American Artists
  
• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, there I am. There's nothing behind it.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - American Artists
  
• A lady friend of mine asked me,
  "Well, what do you love most?"
  That's how I started painting money.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - subject matter - American Artists