Accepting Quote by Paul Gauguin

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me…

— Norbert Bisky

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The…

— Lori Earley

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

— Stephen Hough

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting…

— Paul Cezanne

You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you…

— Peter Doig

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

— Lee Krasner

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few…

— Frida Kahlo

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting…

— Nita Engle

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000…

— Shaquille O'Neal