• I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

::: Euan Uglow :::

• Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

::: Alice Neel :::

• When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

::: Cy Twombly :::

• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

::: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner :::

• All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

::: Eckhart Tolle :::

• I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.

::: Peter Doig :::

• I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

::: Diego Rivera :::

• I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

::: Andrew Wyeth :::

• At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

::: M.C. Escher :::

• I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

::: Giorgio Morandi :::

• A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

::: William Dobell :::

• The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

::: Banksy :::

• I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

::: Spencer Tunick :::

• Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really.

::: Balthus ::: The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. ::: Bono :::

• There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

::: Henry Moore :::

• You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

::: Renoir :::

• I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

::: Mark Rothko :::

• Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

::: Damien Hirst ::: Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. ::: Rumi :::

• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

::: Michelangelo :::

• Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

::: Jean Michel Basquiat :::