Across Quote by Franz Kline

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

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

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

— Sean Scully

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

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

— Wale

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be…

— Robert Motherwell

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

— Augustus John

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's…

— Francis Bacon

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

— Eli Broad

Art is an emotional experience

— Tony Curtis

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

— Richard Diebenkorn