“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.” IfsHumansSoulEarthMovingSpiritAnimalWonderTreeFiguresPaintingFlowerDelightPainterHillsLandscapeLimbsFullnessHuman SoulPetalsFigure Painting Book:Works Source: Works
“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.” EarthMotherBornPaintingTastePainterMilkMilieu Author:Yves Klein
“I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up, to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I'd like to put it together and express it in my paintings. This is the way I want to dedicate my work.” WorldWayWantWellsI CanEarthTogetherNaturalRichPaintingPlanetsHandsomeNatural WorldPlanet Earth Author:Robert Bateman
“Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.” MenMindMayRealityEarthPurposeCertainFoundPaintingSurvivalTestsInstinctDrawingDedicatedCan NotToilImmuneCursed Author:Ala Bashir
“It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.” EarthCertainPaintingInstitutionsClimateStormMannersConformityTidesVansGravitation Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.” LightEarthArtistBlackDarkColorPaintingBluePassingPassingsAtmosphereHorizonRaysRainbowOrangeVioletBlazingIndescribableDark BlueColors Of The RainbowLight Blue Author:Yuri Gagarin
“(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.” Has BeensEarthCitiesHellPaintingCanadaPortraitsTorontoDullnessMethodistsSanctimonious Author:Wyndham Lewis