Appeal Quote by Paul Mellon

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

— Paula Rego

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist…

— Sol LeWitt

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

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

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

— Sean Scully

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

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct -…

— Jackson Pollock

Art is an emotional experience

— Tony Curtis

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the…

— Claes Oldenburg

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas