Artist Quote by Morris Graves

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct…

— Morris Graves

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

— Amy Sherald

I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to…

— Janice Tanton

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

— Brian Froud

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

— Raoul Dufy

I paint with my back to the world

— Agnes Martin

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

— Arshile Gorky

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald