#paint

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#artist #emotion #eye #inspiration #painting

You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction. ↗

— Françoise Gilot

#painting #picasso #art

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love? ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#painter #painting #dreams

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#discloses #painter #photographer

Hans then asked him about painting from nature; Jackson...bluntly offered a phrase that entered Village lore, “I am nature. ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#painting #dreams

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#another #another way #diary #just #keeping

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#veil #painting

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#night #night-sky #painted #sky #strokes

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#painting

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#plans #painting