Artist Quote by Frida Kahlo

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

— Frida Kahlo

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams…

— George Tooker

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

— Dong Kingman

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and…

— Susan Sontag

I never draw my dreams or nightmares. I draw my own reality.

— Brianna Marie Guzik

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

— Leonor Fini

Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show,…

— Julian Schnabel

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

— James Gray

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to…

— Megan Griffiths

I did not have to dream I made it a reality.

— Tyga

I have surreal dreams, so much so that I can never make head nor tail of them.

— Konnie Huq

All the dreams you show up in are not your own.

— Gil Scott-Heron