Art Quotes

"I love the smell of art in the morning."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need."

"Business art is the best art."

"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings."

"I've decided something: Commercial things are art. Warhol canned goods are art."

"Silence is very important. Where would be the character in your art if silence wasn't there?"

"I really believe in empty spaces."

"I always wanted to do a self-portrait."

"I think art should be fun."

"Art is like a very wonderful newspaper."

"I'm into observation and the beauty of the mundane."

"A scream pierces through nature, and I try to paint the feeling rather than the fact."

"The more I suffer, the more I understand what I wish to express."

"Technique is important, but feeling is everything in art."

"The color or the sound alone is not as important as the emotion they convey."

"I paint my own reality. The only reality I really know is my own experience."

"My business is not to paint what I see, but to paint what I see inside."

"I must paint my own reality without apology or explanation."

"The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see."

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

"I want to capture the feeling of the moment, not merely its appearance."

"Every brushstroke is a confession."

"The observer's eye is what brings a painting to life."

"I paint not what I see, but what I feel burning inside my chest."

"To paint the human soul, one must first understand human suffering."

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

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"I paint my own reality."

"I am my own muse; I paint the person I see in the mirror."

"I came from a far away place to tell you a story."