Art Quote by Paul Gauguin

“you draw" (the painter)”

— Sarah Dunant

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and…

— Katherine Dunn

“His drawings were not originals then, only copies. He must have been doing them as a sort of retirement hobby, he was an incurable…

— Margaret Atwood

“The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn’t make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an artist, and…

— Chaim Potok

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something…

— Vic Reeves

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

— Albert Camus

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

“She had never seen me draw–because not drawing and forgetting everything I knew about art, I thought, was the magic key to my becoming…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.”

— Seth

“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than I am,…

— Robert Lowell

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon