Artist Quote by Damian Loeb

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange…

— John Green

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

— Allison Mackie

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

— Philip Guston

What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make…

— Nigel Cooke

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.

— Titian

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

— Jose Parla

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

— Pavel Florensky

“I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph.…

— Veta Louise Simmons

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the…

— Vincent Van Gogh