I love quotes. I collect them so thought I would share some of my favorite art quotes.

+ I think a painter looking at a painting sees the image, but they also see how the image was constructed. = Chuck Close

+ I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.= Francis Bacon

+ I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. = Pablo Picasso

+ Art is either plagiarism or revolution. = Paul Gauguin

+ The most fundamental reason one paints is in order to see. = Brett Whiteley

+ A man's work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. = Albert Camus

+ I don't say everything, but I paint everything. = Pablo Picasso

+ 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 only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. = Frida Kahlo

+ Art is not the bread, but the wine of life. = John Paul Richter

+ Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia. = Brett Whiteley

+ Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. = Pablo Picasso

+ I had reservations about making art a business, but I got over it. = Mary Boone

+ I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant. = Jenny Saville

+ 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

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

+ The aim off art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. = Aristotle

+ I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. = Frida Kahlo

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

+ There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. = Pablo Picasso

+ A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.= Sir Joshua Reynolds