Art Quotes

"The act of making is the art."

"The painting demands commitment."

"I try to paint American."

"I am my work."

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

"The most perfect technique is that which we do not notice."

"Art is the effort of man to express himself and his time."

"Pain refined becomes poetry; suffering transmuted becomes art."

"Every gesture carries the weight of intention."

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

"Art comes from joy and pain - but mostly from pain."

"In my art, I seek to understand the human condition in all its complexity."

"The colors I choose are dictated by my emotions, not by nature."

"Artistic expression is the highest form of human communication."

"Every work of art is a conversation between the artist and the viewer."

"I paint not what I see, but what I remember seeing."

"To understand art, one must understand the artist's torment."

"I believe that art should provoke, not merely please."

"The hand that creates must be guided by the heart."

"My art is my therapy and my confession."

"Modernism is not about breaking with the past but understanding it."

"I paint what burns inside, what I cannot speak."

"My portraits are not likenesses but revelations of character."

"I believe in the power of color to convey emotion directly."

"I have spent my life trying to capture the fleeting moment."

"I am drawn to the grotesque and the beautiful equally."

"I believe art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"Every stroke of the brush is a decision, a commitment."

"The world needs artists who are willing to tell uncomfortable truths."

"The unfinished work is sometimes more powerful than the finished."