Artist Quote by Jason Shawn Alexander

I love the figure to get across what I feel.

— Jason Shawn Alexander

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a…

— John Newman

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

— Sam Francis

“She had to figure out how to feel good about herself apart from what a man thought of her.”

— Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it…

— David Sylvester

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might…

— Claude Monet

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while…

— Rob Brezsny

“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction.…

— Brandon Sanderson

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves…

— Edvard Munch

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

— Emily Carr

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the…

— Maya Angelou

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

— Josef Albers

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that…

— Thomas Willis