Quotes on Painting Art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

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

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.