All kinds Quote by Francis Bacon

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think, 'oh I…

— Donna Tartt

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose…

— Pierre Soulages

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least…

— Susan Minot

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

— PJ Harvey

For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion that you…

— Camille Henrot

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to…

— Stephen Beal

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or…

— Lawren Harris

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

— Mark Rothko