You're sitting there with your muse and your muse is telling you something and you’re following it, and you end up the next day looking at it and thinking "what the hell was the muse saying to me?"
::: Nathan Oliveira :::


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 :::


For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.. an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.
::: Bridget Riley :::

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 :::


Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
::: Scott Adams :::


A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
::: Richard Prince :::


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.
::: Josef Albers :::



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 :::



I like living in the 20th century.. to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.
::: Jeffrey Smart :::


It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.
::: Pierre Bonnard :::


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

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

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

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

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
::: Jim Morrison :::