Artist Quote by Tracy Chevalier

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.”

— Robert Baldwin Ross

“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought…

— Brenda Ueland

“He laughed. “What’s to say? Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse pads and…

— Donna Tartt

“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds of years…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the artist had…

— Lang Leav

“The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how…

— Ron Brackin

“I cannot remember a single painting, although I do remember trying hard to be deeply impressed by them at the time.”

— Iain Pears

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same…

— Luther E. Vann

“What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the stuff that…

— Irving Stone

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

— Bob Proctor

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller