“I really like showing what shocks people. I know that people don't like to tell the truth all the time, but what people don't like to say is exactly what drives me to paint.”— Chéri Samba, amazon.com
“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.”— Man Ray, amazon.com
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I love this picture because it’s universal.’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.’ That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an…”— Donna Tartt, James “Hobie” Hobart, amazon.com
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty…”— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com
“Wine and painting classes are popping up all over the place and let you get creative with your cutie.”— Jené Luciani, shape.com
“Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to…”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I felt her so intensely words seemed unfit I needed to paint her grab colors with my hands and throw it at the canvas 'there' I would point 'this is my love for you.''”— Atticus, instagram.com
“I love her because she steals my socks, I love her because when I find her in them they never match, I love her because they are too big and they grey part for the heel sits far too high but she doesn't notice. I love her because she wears them to sleep and one always falls off and she wakes up in t…”— Atticus, instagram.com
“Holding her was never enough I needed to melt her into me to mix our colors like paint to fuse our atoms and make us one— but that as well would never be enough.”— Atticus, instagram.com
“He painted over her scars with every color he could find until she lost them in the setting sun.”— Atticus, instagram.com
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.com
“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.”— Joe Bradley, interviewmagazine.com
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”— John Berger, amazon.com
“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.”— Dorothea Tanning, theguardian.com
“Art is the only way to ascend to God, doing what our divine Master did, create.”— Paul Gauguin, proleutimpressionists.tumblr.com
“Really, why should we be forced to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false' in the first place? Isn't it enough to assume that there are degrees of apparency and, so to speak, lighter and darker shadows and hues of appearance—different valeurs to use the language of pa…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com