Figures Quote by Tori Amos

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded…

— Man Ray

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Claude Monet

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

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Sean Scully

I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with.…

— Neil Gaiman

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

— H. R. Giger

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's…

— Paul McCartney