Artist Quote by John Constable

Painting is but another word for feeling.

— John Constable

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

— Henri Matisse

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

— Franz Kline

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

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

— Jack Kerouac

For me, painting is like meditation.

— Janet Fish

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

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

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

— Sean Scully

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips