Accepted Quote by Mervyn Levy

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

— Sean Scully

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

— Wale

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

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

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

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

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

Art is an emotional experience

— Tony Curtis

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

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

— Thomas S. Buechner

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

— Richard Diebenkorn