Artist Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for…

— Truman Capote

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller

“Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.”

— Seth Godin

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.”

— Andrew Levy

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

— Paul Klee

“A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.”

— Irving Stone