Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. - Max Ernst

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. - Andy Warhol

Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful. - Jasper Johns

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece. - Jim Dine

The Cubist group of whom you speak experiments only in line, giving color a secondary place, and not a constructional one. - Robert Delaunay

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment." - Andy Warhol

Let my enemies devour each other. - Salvador Dali

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. - Willem de Kooning

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea." - John Ciard

You can't express inspiration without skill. - Stephen Nachmanovich

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. - Andy Warhol

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. - Charles Dickens

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. - Pablo Picasso

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with. - Andy Warhol

An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier than certain pictures. - Wassily Kandinsky

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous." - Andy Warhol

I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people?s plates. - Francis Bacon

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. - Andy Warhol

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. - Andy Warhol

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. - Leonardo da Vinci

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity. - Robert Delaunay

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. - Andy Warhol

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. - Eugene Delacroix

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. - Andy Warhol

Skill is less important than awareness. - Graham Collier

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. - Henri Matisse

The first virtue of a painting is that is to be a feast for the eyes. - Eug?ne Delacroix

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. - Billy Hughes

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. - Andy Warhol

Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding. - Stephen Nachmanovich

An artist's career always begins tomorrow. - James McNeil Whistler

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. - Robert Delaunay

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting. - Henri Matisse

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting. - Andy Warhol

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. - Salvador Dali

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. - Henri Matisse

The only rule in art is what works. - Lee Fleming

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. - Andy Warhol

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony. - Robert Delaunay

The men I painted were all in extreme situations, and the scream is a transcription of their pain. - Francis Bacon

It is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. - Salvador Dali

Painting is by nature a luminous language. - Robert Delaunay

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. - Andy Warhol

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes. - Joanna Field

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. - Salvador Dali

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life. - Egon Schiele

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. - Salvador Dali

I am a deeply superficial person. - Andy Warhol

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man. - Robert Delaunay

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. The pleasure must be found in the work. - Paul Cezanne

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument.... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception. - Winston Churchill

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension. - Marc Chagall

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it it would not have had. - Francis Bacon

A goal is a dream with a deadine. - Author Unknkown

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. - Salvador Dali

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. - Andy Warhol

Seurat sought for the primary laws. Cezanne demolished the whole of painting since its beginnings. - Robert Delaunay

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. - Salvador Dali

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. - Andy Warhol

We classify too much and enjoy too little. - Okakura Kakuzo

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. - Salvador Dali

To be an artist is to believe in life. - Henry Moore

When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds. - Eric Booth

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. - Salvador Dali

When Chagall paints you do not know if he is asleep or awake. Somewhere or other inside his head there must be an angel. - Pablo Picasso

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. - Amedeo Modigliani

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. - Paul C?zanne

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. - Andy Warhol

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. - Henry David Thoreau

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization... - Roy Lichtenstein

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. - Andy Warhol

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. - Claus Oldenburg

I cannot do without something greater than I, something that is my life--the power to create. - Vincent van Gogh

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? - Paul Gauguin

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. - Tchaikovsky

You don't get into the mood to create - it's discipline. - Henri Matisse

Genius, unlike virtuosity, is judged by the greatness of results, not by the brilliance of performance. - Vincent Tomas

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all. - George Rodrigue

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. - Salvador Dali

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. - Andy Warhol

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri Matisse

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then the painting is finished. - Pierre Auguste Renoir

There's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living. - Jim Dine

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be - Juan Gris

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. - Robert Delaunay

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. - Andy Warhol

In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't do by oneself. - Robert Motherwell

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. - Silvano Arieti

This is either a forgery or a damn clever original. - Frank Sullivan

One can never study nature too much and too hard. - Vincent van Gogh

All artists are vain, they long to be recognised and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free. - Francis Bacon

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. - Andy Warhol

The art of a people is the true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. - Andy Warhol

Mistakes  - never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. - Salvador Dali

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds. - Egon Schiele

Land really is the best art. - Andy Warhol

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. - Camille Pissarro

Art is nature seen in the light of its formal significance. - Leo Stein

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures. - Marc Chagall

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. - Francis Bacon

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. - Salvador Dali

All good ideas arrive by chance. - Max Ernst

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs. - Leonardo da Vinci

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider?s web. - Pablo Picasso

Never trust an art dealer who'll sit in a room for more than ten minutes with a crooked picture. - Brett Whiteley

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. - Pablo Picasso

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint. - Francis Bacon

Vision is the true creative rhythm. - Robert Delaunay

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. - Jean Arp

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. - Jim Dine

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contary, it is done, so to speak with my own blood. - Jim Dine

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. - Jim Dine

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher. - W. Eugene Smith

One of the greatest things in the world is to train ourselves to see beauty in the commonplace. - Charles Hawthorne

I shut my eyes in order to see. - Paul Gauguin

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. - Salvador Dali

There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily Kandinsky

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? - Pablo Picasso

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. - Salvador Dali

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there. - Jim Dine

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. - Henri Matisse

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. - Jim Dine

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. - Andy Warhol

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature. - Paul Cezanne

Many of life's failures are people who never realized how close they were to success until after they quit. - Thomas Edison

When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath. - Salvador Dali

Seeing is in itself a movement. - Robert Delaunay

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling

Art disturbs, science reassures. - Georges Braque

Civilization is what makes you sick. - Paul Gauguin

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. - Paul Gauguin

As a rule, someone who has difficulty with painting in any medium is not prepared to believe that the real trouble is ignorance of drawing and composition. - William Herring

Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. - Salvador Dali

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger. - Andy Warhol

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. - Salvador Dali

I like boring things. - Andy Warhol

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice. - Henri Matisse

I have always tried to hide my own efforts and wished my works to have the lightness and joyousness of a springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labours it cost. - Henri Matisse

This reality is endowed with Vastness (we see as far as the stars), and it then becomes Rhythmic Simultaneity. - Robert Delaunay

I don't do drugs. I am drugs. - Salvador Dali

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. - Frank Auerbach

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. - Salvador Dali

He was my one and only master!.. I spent years studying them.. Cezanne! He was like the father of us all. - Pablo Picasso

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. - Albert Einstein

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it it would not have had. - Francis Bacon

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. - Francis Bacon