“And if I should paint a picture too That showed the loveliness of you My art would be like my heart and me Dedicated to you”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“Freely and madly; you will make progress... Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately... Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“With this painting, I tried to make everything breathe faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style and great nature with its scream.”— Paul Gaugin, en.wikiquote.org
“How do you see this tree? Is it really green? Use green, then, the most beautiful green on your palette. And that shadow, rather blue? Don't be afraid to paint it as blue as possible.”— Paul Gaugin, en.wikiquote.org
“Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which…”— Paul Gaugin, en.wikiquote.org
“One evening I came to have a discussion with my father on the subject how long unbelievers are tormented in Hell. I maintained that no sinner could be so guilty that God would let him suffer longer than a thousand years. Father said that they would suffer for a thousand times a thousand years. We wo…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“One sunny spring day I heard the music coming down Karl Johan [street] and it filled me with joy. The spring, the sun, the music, all blended together to make me shiver with pleasure. The music added colour to the colours. I painted the picture allowing the colours to reverberate with the rhythm of…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“The point is that one sees things at different moments with different eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which one sees also depends on one's mood.. ..coming in from a dark bedroom in the morning into the sitting room one will, for example, see everything in a bluish li…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“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, en.wikiquote.org
“I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a bedside table with a white cover, white curtains and a blue wall.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“Suppose I want to paint a woman's body: first of all I imbue it with grace and charm, but I know that I must give something more. I will condense the meaning of this body by seeking its essential lines. The charm will be less apparent at first glance, but it must eventually emerge from the new image…”— Henri Matisse, amazon.com
“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having p…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“I hate flowers — I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move!”— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com
“Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my effort to create an equivalent with paint color for the world – life as I see it.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, en.wikiquote.org
“The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.”— Joan Miro, pin.it
“One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com