Art Quote by Ellsworth Kelly

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work…

— Diana Krall

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I…

— Jim Lee

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way…

— Thomas Kinkade

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The…

— Lori Earley

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston

I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my…

— Hokusai

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination;…

— Nat Turner

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

— Pablo Picasso

The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the…

— Philip Guston

There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I…

— Ryan McGinness