Instruments Quote by Ronnie Wood

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual…

— Pat Steir

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

For me, painting is like meditation.

— Janet Fish

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done…

— John Lurie

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

— Mark Rothko

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's…

— Felix Mendelssohn

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

— Oliver Jeffers

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates…

— Dana Schutz