Art Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed…

— Jacob Lawrence

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose…

— Pierre Soulages

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that…

— Joe Murray

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings…

— Mos Def

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in…

— Shea Hembrey

Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under…

— Titian

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas

The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself into an…

— Marshall McLuhan

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner