Affair Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Lucian Freud

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

— Genesis P-Orridge

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

— Marlene Dumas

The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely…

— Kehinde Wiley

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

— Jamie Dornan

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

— Patrick Swift

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any…

— Anonymous

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

— Noah Taylor

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

— Claude Monet

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't -…

— Claes Oldenburg