“I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.” FeelingsPurposeWalksVisionGreenPaintForestsPainterSensationsIndigestion Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.” ThinkingKnowsWantMeanFeelingsSoundTermMy OwnExpressionPaintDislikeCultIsmsExpressionismExponents Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.” WritingFeelingsPaintFeel BetterSplendid Author:Emily Carr
“When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time - or better - the experience of color coming slowly out of the tube - is with me to this day.” FeelingsColorPaintOilSavedThis DayTubesFourteenThirteen Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.” IfsArtFeelingsFallWallColdPaintStudiosWarmProfessionFeel GoodPainterFalling DownSculptorsNot Feeling Good Author:Jack White
“I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.” ArtFeelingsOrderNextAirPaintPainterProphetConsiderationContemporary Art Author:Josef Albers
“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.” IfsMayFeelingsArtistViewsSkyShapesMountainExperienceResponsePaintFinishedCanvasSoarEvoke Author:Lawren Harris
“One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.” IfsThinkingWantTryingReasonFeelingsWonderWonderfulPaintCanvas Author:E. J. Hughes
“One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.” UseFeelingsEmotionPaintPigment Author:Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
“When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.” KnowsWantFeelsLooksPersonsFeelingsKnow HowPaintPortraitsPortraiturePhysiognomy Author:Jamie Wyeth
“A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.” IfsFeelingsRecordsPaintStatementsPainterChairsEntity Author:Bob Dylan
“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.” ShouldMadeStillsI CanFeelingsLyingMy OwnWhitePaintingSceneHorseGratefulPaintPainterInstanceTouchedStrongestAssociatesPencilsCarelessI Am GratefulBoyhoodWhite Horse Author:John Constable
“Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.” MenFeelingsArtistPrayingPaintSensitiveAlmightyPiousTrue FeelingsSensitive Man Author:Caspar David Friedrich
“A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.” FeelingsSubjectsPaintingOffersPaintLandscapeApplicationCompetenceDemonstrationCompetentHomageLandscape Painting Author:Keith Shackleton
“One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.” FeelingsOrderPaintCopiesGrandeur Author:Georges Vantongerloo
“My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.” PeopleMenYearsLittlesLongArtMadeImportantFeelingsAbleLastsFacesSpiritualMeditationPaintingPeriodsSeriesPaintIllnessDeeperObsessedColourLast YearFormatMotifsImportant WorkSchemas Author:Alexej von Jawlensky