Artist Quote by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

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

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his…

— Joseph Joubert

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

— Gertrude Stein

“I think his paintings are cathartic for him,” she said. “After you experience trauma that deep, you need to do something to heal. Something…

— Liz Murray

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come…

— Morton Feldman

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized…

— Ala Bashir

The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within…

— Caspar David Friedrich

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

— Francis Bacon

A lot of people tell me that my paintings are sad-looking, but they're actually more pensive than sad. They're very colorful and that says…

— Heart Evangelista

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has…

— Pablo Picasso

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

— Claude Monet