Figurative Paintings

Painting Art Quote:

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.(Vincent Van Gogh)

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. (Lucian Freud)

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. (Chuck Close)

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. (Jackson Pollock)

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have. (Chuck Close)

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. (Paul Klee)

Every good painter paints what he is. (Jackson Pollock)

A painter paints the appearance of things,not their objective correctness,in fact he creates new appearances of things. (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner)

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. (Caspar David Friedrich)

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. (Lucian Freud)

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. (Edouard Manet)

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. (Lucian Freud)

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. (Paul Cezanne)

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. (Paul Cezanne)

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. (Lucian Freud)

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. (Lucian Freud)

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. (Paul Cezanne)