I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way...things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
Giorgio DeChirico
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
"What a society deems important is enshrined in its art"
Harry Broudy
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Henri Matisse
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. Henri Matisse
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Henri Matisse
"What I dream of is an art of equilibrium, purity and tranquility, devoid of upsetting or troubling subject matter ..." Henri Matisse
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. Henry Miller
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher
"When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" Howard Ikemoto
Every good painter paints what he is. Jackson Pollock
The painting has a life of its own. Jackson Pollock
"As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color." James McNeil Whistler
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James McNeil Whistler
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
Giorgio DeChirico
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
"What a society deems important is enshrined in its art"
Harry Broudy
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Henri Matisse
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. Henri Matisse
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Henri Matisse
"What I dream of is an art of equilibrium, purity and tranquility, devoid of upsetting or troubling subject matter ..." Henri Matisse
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. Henry Miller
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher
"When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" Howard Ikemoto
Every good painter paints what he is. Jackson Pollock
The painting has a life of its own. Jackson Pollock
"As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color." James McNeil Whistler
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James McNeil Whistler
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