Chaos Quote by May Sarton

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are…

— Kevin Young

For me, painting is like meditation.

— Janet Fish

As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them…

— Richard Schmid

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the…

— Moby

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose…

— Sue Halpern