Abstract Quote by Jason Shawn Alexander

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

— Jose Parla

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The…

— Lori Earley

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

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

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a…

— Willem de Kooning

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the…

— Kat Von D

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

— Vanessa Paradis

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw…

— Irving Stone

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

— Vincent Van Gogh