Artist Quote by Paul Gauguin

“And still, still, there is more to describe- we paint because drawing breath is an agony and exhaling an ecstasy and somewhere in the…

— Marie Anzalone

“I was so thankful He gave me this chance to enter a painting, for painting was my weakness. If I could do only two…

— R.A. Rooney

“that painting, that song, that book―   if it's real, it was once terror, with cruelty and sadness as a backdrop.   it arrived…

— Adam Moursy

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same…

— Luther E. Vann

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“Art doesn’t fill a space—it transforms it into something sacred.”

— Jennifer Pierre

“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”

— Kimberly Novosel

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

“The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have…

— Nigel Tomm

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I…

— Donna Tartt

“Art is the closest thing I have to faith.”

— Abigail Boyd