Art Quote by Stephin Merritt

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've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

— Michelle Zauner

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

— Timothy Spall

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

— Eli Broad

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

— Salvador Dali

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

— Julia Cameron

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

— Angel Haze

All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster. I think…

— Joe Satriani

“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.”

— Milan Kundera

There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work.…

— Tony Harrison

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

— Bryan Greenberg

I have very little interest in endlessly telling people about my artistic process. It sounds like throwing yourself against a wall and crying. It's…

— Laurel Nakadate