where artists sell direct to collectors

Terms of Use

Alinui Limited manages and operates art websites including IrishArtists.com and BritishArtists.com (hereafter called the WebSites) these being internet services which facilitate the selling and buying of works of art (hereafter called Artworks) between artists and others (hereafter called Sellers) and collectors and others (hereafter called Buyers).

Please read carefully the following Terms of Use Agreement hereafter called (the Agreement) before using the WebSites. It is a legally binding condition of using the WebSites that you accept this Agreement when you register on any WebSites. If at any time you do not agree with the terms of this Agreement, do not proceed to access the Websites.

The WebSites may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting to the WebSites. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the Service after any such modification is posted. Your participation in the WebSites is entirely conditional on and subject to your compliance with this Agreement. By following the instructions during the registration process you confirm your unconditional acceptance of this Agreement and any subsequent modifications.

Scope of Sales

After opening an Artist account on the Sites, Artworks are made available for sale by Member Artists or others on the WebSite. Artworks may also be made available for sale on or through other websites operated by the owner of the WebSites, the websites of our marketing partners or other sales channels we reasonably determine to use in the future.

Non-Exclusivity and Pricing

You may market your artwork through other channels simultaneously with marketing through the WebSites provided that this does not affect your ability to deliver the artwork to the customer within the specified time. You also agree not to offer your artwork at a price lower than the price which you are offering it through the WebSites and that if the Artwork is sold through another channel you will remove it from sale at the WebSites within 2 days. This price must be inclusive of VAT (if applicable) and your delivery and insurance costs to anywhere in the UK or Ireland.

You agree to indicate clearly on your Artist gallery whether or not any original Artwork is for sale or not and, if it is, the price of the original Artwork. Any change of status of availability must be updated within 48 hours of such change in status. If we receive complaints from users who attempt to buy original Artwork listed as being available for sale when it is not, your membership in the WebSites may be subject to termination.

Collectors

After opening a Collector account on the WebSitea, Collectors may be required to give detailed profiles, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, contact information, and more.  All of this information is not disclosed on the WebSites unless to seller member when a sale is made of a Member Artist's work. The Websites then facilitates the transaction but forms NO PART of the legal contract between the buyer Collector and the seller Artist although it may take a fee for facilitating such a transaction.

Sales of Artwork

The WebSites facilitates the sale of Artist's and others art through an Escrow System. When a buyer offers to purchase an Artwork through the Websites it is a condition that they must only use the WebSites designated "Escrow" system of payment (currently with Transpact). This Escrow service is a licensed and regulated company that collects, holds, and sends a buyer's money to a seller according to instructions agreed on by both of them. Both parties agree the standard terms which may include but not be limited to: fee to escrow service; conditions of accepting the Artwork; length of inspection period; payment of escrow fees and returns.

Payment is sent by the buyer to the Escrow service who confirms that it has cleared. The seller sends the buyer the Artwork by the WebSites agreed traceable delivery method currently Parcel2go.com which may include insurance cover and may provide the escrow company with a tracking number.

If the item is not accepted, the buyer must return the item to the seller, paying the return delivery cost and the escrow fee. Payment, minus the escrow fees, is then returned to the buyer.
If the the buyer accepts and confirms receipt of the artwork (or the inspection period runs out) the funds are paid to the seller normally within seven business days after deducting any fees payable to the WebSites.

It is the essence of this Agreement that the WebSites acts solely as a facilitator between collectors or dealers and artists allowing those two parties the opportunity of contracting with each other for the purpose of buying and selling Artworks. In this process the WebSites form no part whatsoever of such a contract but may take a fee for facilitating the process.

You hereby acknowledge and accept the designated Escrow method (Transpact) for all sales of Artwork.

Delivery, Packaging and Insurance

You are responsible and liable for costs of all materials, packaging, delivery and insurance costs. These costs cannot be reclaimed from the WebSites under any circumstances and should be taken into account when pricing your artworks. You will ensure that Artworks are securely packaged, labelled and adequately insured for safe delivery to the Customer.

You will not include any contact details that would encourage the customer to deal directly with you in the packaging, such as business cards, leaflets, letters of solicitation for business etc.

You will package and arrange delivery of Artworks to the buyer within five working days of receiving the order using our designated transport company Parcel2go.com. The Artwork must arrive with the buyer no later than 7 working days after the order has been received by you.

You are responsible for delivery of any Artwork sold; insurance and any risk of loss; all applicable taxes and costs incurred related to any sale of art; resolution of any disputes arising from the sale of the Artwork; complying with any applicable laws, restrictions, regulations or manner of sale or exchange that may pertain to transactions of the Artwork.

Returns and damaged goods

In the event of the Artwork arriving damaged with the buyer, the agreement accepted by both parties in the Escrow contract will apply.

Information Warranty

By using the WebSites and the service, you represent and warrant that all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate and that you agree to maintain the accuracy of such information.  You further represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older and that your use of the WebSites shall not violate any applicable law or regulation. You are solely responsible for all content published or displayed through your account, including any email messages, and for your interactions with other Members including collectors and all others.

Ownership Rights in content on the WebSites

The WebSites retain all proprietary rights in the Websites and the service. The WebSites contains copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of the WebSites.  Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given written permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.

As the creator of your Artwork, you are the owner of the copyright to your Artwork work even if you sell the original Artwork to someone else. So, even if someone else buys your original they do not own the reproduction and other copyrights to the Artwork itself, unless you specifically draw up a contract to reflect that you have transferred such rights to that person.

Copyright Policy

It is the policy of the WebSites to terminate membership privileges of any member who infringes copyright upon prompt notification to the WebSites by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal agent.  If you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the WebSites in a way that constitutes copyright infringement please contact us immediately in order that we may investigate such a claim.

Content Posted on the WebSites.

You agree that we have the right, but not the obligation, to screen all Artist content. You acknowledge that the factors determining whether Artist content falls within our content policy may be subjective, and you agree that we shall determine in our sole discretion whether your Artist content adheres to our content policy. By posting any content to the public areas of the WebSites, you hereby grant to the WebSites the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, publicly perform and display such content on the WebSites. This license will terminate at the time you remove such content from the WebSites.  You represent and warrant that you own the content posted by you on the WebSites or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and your content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright rights, or other intellectual property rights of any person.  You agree to pay for all royalties and fees owing any person by reason of any content you post on the WebSites.

You will receive a password and user name. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and are fully responsible for all activities that occur on your Artist account.

Termination of this Agreement

The kind of content that is prohibited on the WebSites is determined by the owner at their sole discretion including, but not limited to illegal, offensive, advertising or material not relevant to the art industry. The Site owner reserves the right to remove the material and terminate the membership of such members. You acknowledge that any such decision by the WebSites may be subjective, and you agree that the WebSitse shall determine in its sole discretion whether such content should be deleted.

You agree not to include in your area of the WebSites or in any of your artist content any information intended to lead to sales of listed items inside or outside of the WebSites. This includes, but is not limited to email addresses, telephone numbers, external website addresses, references to alternative channels through which your work may be purchased. Inclusion of such material may lead to termination of your account, without notice.

We may also in our sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing the Websitse, or any part thereof, with or without notice. We shall have no obligation to preserve or return to you any images, files or other content related to your account. We shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the WebSites. Should you object to any terms and conditions of the Agreement or become dissatisfied with the WebSites in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue your use of the WebSites and/or terminate your account,

Term & Fees

This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the WebSites, the service, and/or are a Member.  You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason by sending an e-mail to termination@irishartists.com with user name and password and a request for termination. If the WebSites terminates your Membership in the Service because you have breached the Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees (if applicable).  Even after membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect. The WebSites Terms of Use and/or subscription fees that were provided to you at registration may change from time to time.  By using the Service and by becoming a Member, you acknowledge that the WebSites reserves the right to charge for the Service and has the right to terminate a Member's membership should Member breach this Agreement or fail to pay for the Service, as required by this Agreement. In addition, the WebSites reserves the right to charge monthly membership fees for Artists, Collectors and other users, A notification of any fee change will be e-mailed to all affected Members at least 30 days in advance of the change. Any Member that wishes to cancel his/her account may do so at any time by sending an e-mail to termination@irishartists.com. Upon cancellation, members will not be entitled to a refund of any previously charged membership fees.

Member Disputes

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other IrishArtists.com Members.  The WebSites reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members. It may encourage use of arbitration through an Escrow Service but has no obligation to do so.

Privacy Policy

Personal information you provide to us is subject to our Privacy Policy.

Disclaimers

The WebSites are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate content posted on the WebSites or in connection with the Service provided, whether caused by Members of the WebSites or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilised in the Service. The WebSites are not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the WebSites.  The WebSites assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, or alteration of, any user or Member communication. The WebSites are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to users and/or Members or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the WebSites and/or in connection with the Service.  Under no circumstances shall the WebSites be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the WebSites or the Service or from any content posted on the WebSites or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the WebSites, whether online or offline.  The WebSites and the Websites Service are provided "as-is" basis and the WebSites expressly disclaim any warranty of fitness whether express or implied for a particular purpose or non-infringement.  The WebSites cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the WebSites and/or the Service.

Limitation on Liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE WEBSITES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITES OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF THE WEBSITES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, THE WEBSITES LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO LAST SINGLE AMOUNT OF MEMBERSHIP FEES PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO THE WEBSITES.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold the WebSites, its owners, agents and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the WebSites and service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above.

Disputes

If there is any dispute about or involving  the WebSites and/or the Service, by using the WebSites, you agree that any dispute shall be governed by the laws of Northern Ireland. 

Other

This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the WebSite and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member of the WebSites. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and the WebSites regarding the use of the WebSites. The failure of the WebSites to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a deeply superficial person. - Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let my enemies devour each other. - Salvador Dali

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting is by nature a luminous language. - Robert Delaunay

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

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

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

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

Civilization is what makes you sick. - Paul Gauguin

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. - Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

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

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

All good ideas arrive by chance. - Max Ernst

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

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

Vision is the true creative rhythm. - Robert Delaunay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Land really is the best art. - Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. - Henri Matisse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art disturbs, science reassures. - Georges Braque

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

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

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

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

I like boring things. - Andy Warhol

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

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

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

Seeing is in itself a movement. - Robert Delaunay

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

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

Skill is less important than awareness. - Graham Collier

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

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