“All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.” Bob Ross
“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” Pablo Picasso
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh
“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” Frida Kahlo
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. – Elaine de Kooning
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso
“I love to look at art, I love to look at paintings, and I almost feel like the experience isn’t complete until I’ve made something of my own.” – Cecily Brown
“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” Vincent van Gogh
“Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” - Andy Warhol
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” - Piet Mondrian
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” Salvador Dali
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” Francis Bacon
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” - Alberto Giacometti
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” - Auguste Rodin
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” - Edgar Degas
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art must be an expression of love or it isnothing.” - Marc Chagall