Elements Quote by Lucian Freud

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

— Marlene Dumas

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to…

— Claude Monet

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much…

— Francis Bacon

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

— Patrick Swift

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

— Anubhav Sinha

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

— Richard Diebenkorn

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any…

— Anonymous

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

— Franz Kline

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of…

— Dimple Kapadia

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

— Robert Motherwell