“Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.”— Adolph Gottlieb, amazon.com
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, amazon.com
“When your heart is in love, you're floating weightless. When you lose that love, you have to re-enter the atmosphere. And it can get pretty rough. Bouncing off one molecule onto the next, ripping through them at such a pace that they ignite and explode. Until you find another heart that's doing the…”— Jim Carrey, vimeo.com
“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas where painting is concerned, they want to understand. Let them understand above all that t…”— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com
“Robert's son is a great painter. He painted a $100 note on the floor of the classroom. His teacher broke her nails trying to pick it up. She called his father on the phone to complain about the kid and explain what happened. The father from his hospital bed responds..."You got lucky Madam. At home t…”— friskyfrog, reddit.com
“The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.”— Francisco Goya, facebook.com
“There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.”— Robert Rauschenberg, amazon.com
“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping, if it seemed to me I knew nothing.”— Paul Cezanne, amazon.com
“The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees.”— Mark Rothko, amazon.com
“I don’t want to be a piece of art. Nobody touches artwork. They just look from afar and move on.”— Azra T., quotemadness.com
“You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.”— Gordon MacKenzie, amazon.com
“Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it.”— Jasper Johns, amazon.com