“When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.” DoneFormVoiceStepsColorThreshold Author:Michele Cassou
“I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.” NeedsGivingKindUseInformationPhotographyGive MePhotograph Author:Alex Colville
“Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.” CoursesProcessGoalCreativePaintingCreative Process Author:Don Farrell
“Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.” ArtI CanPaintShoesGutsStringsLard Author:George Luks
“Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.” ThinkingArtTermChinesePatriotismMexicanUniversality Author:Rufino Tamayo
“Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.” MeanArtEarthGrowsUnderstandingOur LivesExpressionUnderstoodArt IsTexture Author:Rufino Tamayo
“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.” MindAmbitionWingsExtremesIdolsMy AmbitionGreat MindsGreat Ambition Author:Shakti Gawain
“What a delightful thing this perspective is!” PerspectiveDelightfulDelightful Things Author:Paolo Uccello
“One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.” IfsOne ThingDogIntellectPainterAmazedCloseness Author:Ken Gillespie
“Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.” MindBodySpiritNextSubjectsPaintingBecomingConnectionsRelevantCanvasStrokes Author:Ken Gillespie