Painters Quotes

If you hear a voice within you say, you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent van Gogh

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
-Henri Matisse

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and it is nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
-Fernando Botero

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.
-Fernando Botero

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
-Norman Rockwell