Artist Quote by Damian Loeb

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

— Claude Monet

I felt like I was a bit more respected when I started to paint. It was like revealing my diary, but in a different…

— Heart Evangelista

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

— Claude Monet

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen -…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

— David Rockefeller

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today,…

— William Baziotes

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded…

— Kurt Wagner

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

— Janis Joplin

I got married, which opened me up to a whole new way of feeling about life, which in turn reflected on the way I…

— Ann Wilson

I felt no one really understood me.

— James Bowen