Art Quote by Euan Uglow

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

— Salvador Dali

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

— Franz Kline

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and…

— Edvard Munch

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I…

— Willem de Kooning

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is…

— Richard Grieco

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

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

— Sean Scully

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

— Willie Cauley-Stein