Feels Quote by Robert Ryan

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

— Sean Scully

A lot of people tell me that my paintings are sad-looking, but they're actually more pensive than sad. They're very colorful and that says…

— Heart Evangelista

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

— Chuck Close

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get…

— Grandma Moses

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.

— Judith Ellen Levy

Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

— Rumi

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 am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

— Claude Monet

I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

— Marge Piercy

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it…

— Julian Schnabel