Michelangelo
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Edward Hopper
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Maxwell Anderson
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you... It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
Ernst Fischer
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Danny Kaye
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
William Inge
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.
Vincent van Gogh
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
