Believe Quote by Edward Hopper

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system…

— Mervyn Levy

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

— Thomas S. Buechner

If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly…

— James Elkins

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it…

— Pierre Bonnard

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the works of…

— Rollo May

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They…

— Eric Fischl