Artist Quote by Ben Eine

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

— Ad Reinhardt

A lot of people tell me that my paintings are sad-looking, but they're actually more pensive than sad. They're very colorful and that says…

— Heart Evangelista

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

— H. R. Giger

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to…

— Claude Monet

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate…

— Max Beckmann

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not…

— David Luiz

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

— Edgar Degas

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

— H. R. Giger

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

— Salvador Dali

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

— James Rosenquist