Nervous Quote by Francis Bacon

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

— Francis Bacon

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.

— Judith Ellen Levy

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

— Honore de Balzac

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

— Erin Morgenstern

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco