Artist Quote by William Blake

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“[...] love is a do thing. It's an energy that has to be dissipated.”

— Bob Goff

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power…

— May Sarton

“There was no longer a wellspring of tears or a firestorm of rage. The surge of feeling that enveloped Nathan James the last few…

— Benjamin X. Wretlind

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

— Mason Cooley

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been…

— Anton Corbijn

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers