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Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Create with the heart; build with the mind. — Criss Jami

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist. — Naum Gabo

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself. — Andre Malraux

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark ... my value unhangable. — Marina Leigh Duff

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished. — John Singer Sargent

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. — Ad Reinhardt

Sometimes when I am painting large flowers, I imagine that I am the bee. — Minnelli Lucy France

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it. — Vincent Van Gogh

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. — Pliny The Younger

[The Creator] shines in the cosmic consciousness as a painting in the mind of an artist. — Swami Venkatesananda

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting. — Roma Downey

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account ... — Hiroko Sakai

Art is unpredictable. — Joe Papagoda

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out. — Lucian Freud

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting. — Marcel Dzama

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul. — Dolly Parton

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. — Seneca The Younger

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist. — Harold Rosenberg

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds, — Ross Wetzsteon

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting. — Mark Bradford

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly. — Claude Monet

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye. — Erro

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. — Claude Monet

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti

think of daily life as an ever-moving three-dimensional painting with you as the artist, — Jane Roberts

Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do. — Fennel Hudson

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist — Leonid Afremov

You bring to a painting your own experience. — Jacob Lawrence

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway. — Joe Bradley

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist. — John Travolta

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. — Kelly Miller

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions. — Wale

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors. — Ljupka Cvetanova

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration. — Mervyn Levy

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished. — Rembrandt

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime. — Marcel Duchamp

She was like an outline of the painting of the Holy Virgin that an artist has sketched in black and white, but not yet filled with colour. — Karen Maitland

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there. — J. M. W. Turner

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed. — Scott Avett

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. — James Elkins

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch. — Criss Jami

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE" ... To whom?.. To where? ... Where am I going to ... ? — Hiroko Sakai

The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing ... — Hiroko Sakai

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person. — Joseph C Zinker

You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own. — Wolfgang Beltracchi

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see. — T. Allen Lawson

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future. — Thomas Kinkade

T has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting. — Vincent Van Gogh

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. — Pablo Picasso