Paul Art Quotes - (406 quotes)

Paula Abdul - From the Fear category:

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear – that's how it's done. (Paula Abdul)

Paul Bandford - From the Form category:

Lines as edges kill a sense of form. (Paul Bandford)

Paul Beresford - From the Criticism category:

I'm so self-critical it's difficult to think what to do. (Paul Beresford)

Paul Bourget - From the Light category:

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. (Paul Bourget)

Paul Bowles - From the Ego category:

It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, "What do you think of yourself as?" My answer is, "Nothing." (Paul Bowles)

Paula Brook - From the Nudes category:

The nude portrait is only incidentally about the naked person in the middle of the room. (Paula Brook)

Paul Brunton - From the Inspiration category:

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration. (Paul Brunton)

Paul Burlin - From the Abstraction category:

In the process of making a painting in an abstract way, the painter is in search of a reality. Not one of realistic objects, but of the complete end result. The painting is experienced as a whole, and must evoke in the painter the absolute conviction that this is how it should be and no other way. (Paul Burlin)

Paula Sue Butts - From the Persistence category:

Persistence is the way to fingerprint your inner talent. (Paula Sue Butts)

Paul Cade - From the Failure category:

It is through failure that we learn our skills, as well as who we are and how much more we are capable of. (Paul Cade)

Paul Cade - From the Mediocrity category:

Mediocrity is created by the notion of 'good enough will do' and it is also aided by the dumbing down of our media and buying into fear and conservatism. (Paul Cade)

Paul Cezanne - From the Acceptance category:

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Aging category:

I am old and ill, and I have sworn to die painting. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Application category:

With an apple I will astonish Paris. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Art category:

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Art category:

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Awareness category:

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Books category:

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Boredom category:

I thought that by leaving Aix I should leave behind the boredom that pursues me. Actually I have done nothing but change my abode and the boredom has followed me. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Burning category:

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one! (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Chaos category:

We live in a rainbow of chaos. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Colour category:

-on Eugene Delacroix...
His is the greatest palette of France and no one beneath our skies possessed to a greater extent than he both the serene and the pathetic, the vibration of color. We all paint through him. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Colour category:

There is no model; there is only color. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Colour category:

Nature is more depth than surface. Hence the need to introduce into our light vibrations represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blue to give the impression of air. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Colour category:

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Colour category:

-to Camille Pissarro...
The sun is so terrific here that is seems to me as if the objects were silhouetted not only in black and white, but in blue, red, brown and violet. I may be mistaken, but this seems to me to be the opposite of modelling. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Colour category:

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Complexity category:

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Comprehension category:

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Confidence category:

-to Victor Chocquet...
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Construction category:

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Criticism category:

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path – the concrete study of nature – to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Critics category:

-to Emile Bernard...
Do not be an art critic, but paint, therein lies salvation. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Difficulty category:

I have made some progress. Why so late and with such difficulty? Is art really a priesthood that demands the pure in heart who must belong to it entirely? (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Difficulty category:

The contour eludes me. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Dissatisfaction category:

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Dissatisfaction category:

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Drawing category:

Drawing and colour are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more the colour harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Ego category:

All my compatriots are asses compared to me. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Ego category:

-to his mother...
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Emotion category:

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

Paul Cezanne - From the Experience category:

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Experience category:

The knowledge of the means of expressing our emotions is only acquired through very long experience. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Expression category:

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Expression category:

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Finishing category:

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Friendship category:

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Harmony category:

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Harmony category:

When they [paintings] are done right, harmony appears by itself. The more numerous and varied they are, the more the effect is obtained and agreeable to the eye. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Immortality category:

Everything we see falls apart, vanishes. Nature is always the same, but nothing in her that appears to us, lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us the taste of her eternity. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Innocence category:

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos... (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Interest category:

-to his son...
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Life category:

I wish to die painting. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Light category:

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Light category:

An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Masters category:

We may all descend from Pissarro. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Methodology category:

I advance all of my canvas at one time. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Methodology category:

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Models category:

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Mysteries category:

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious; it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Nature category:

I have not tried to reproduce nature: I have represented it. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Nature category:

In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Nature category:

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Nature category:

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Obscurity category:

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Observation category:

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Originality category:

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Originality category:

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Painting category:

He unfolds, as a painter, that which has not yet been said; he translates it into absolute terms of painting – something other than reality. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Painting category:

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Painting category:

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Pleasure category:

Pleasure must be found in study. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Plein Air category:

All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Portraiture category:

-after 115 sittings for a portrait of Ambroise Vollard...
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Profession category:

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Progress category:

To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Satisfaction category:

I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Searching category:

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Seeing category:

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Seeing category:

-on Claude Monet...
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye! (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Senses category:

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Senses category:

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art – and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Strength category:

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Subject category:

Fruits... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Survival category:

My nervous system is very much weakened – nothing but painting in oil can keep me going. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Taste category:

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Time category:

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint... We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate... give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Tones category:

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Tradition category:

Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas? (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Understanding category:

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. (Paul Cezanne)

Paul Cezanne - From the Unknowns category:

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen. (Paul Cezanne)

Paulo Coelho - From the Belief category:

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Importance category:

I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Impossibilities category:

Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Intellect category:

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Journey category:

For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Love category:

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Miracles category:

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Progress category:

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Risk category:

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. (Paulo Coelho)

Paulo Coelho - From the Suffering category:

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. (Paulo Coelho)

Paul Coffey - From the Effort category:

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. (Paul Coffey)

Pauline Conn - From the Nature category:

Bless the trees and wild renewing places! (Pauline Conn)

Paula Rey Cowdrey - From the Production category:

One must factor life into producing. (Paula Rey Cowdrey)

Paul Delvaux - From the Colour category:

I have always wanted my colours to sing. (Paul Delvaux)

Paul Delvaux - From the Surrealism category:

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical. (Paul Delvaux)

Paul deMarrais - From the Beginning category:

It takes a lot more energy to start a painting than it takes to finish up... Pastel is a fast medium and I take advantage of the energy and intuition to get out of the gate fast. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Energy category:

Artists need to learn to manage their energy level. We are not machines. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Finishing category:

-after a plein air session...
It is as if I am awakened from an intense daydream. Where did the time go? The effort is very tiring but not unpleasantly so. If I can get away with it, a nice nap tops off the experience. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Greatness category:

One must be able to strike a balance between the opposing forces of self-esteem and self-doubt. Great artists have both in generous quantities. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Optimism category:

We have to dig deep and plumb our inner resources to keep positive and productive. This may mean finding new friends who aren't depressed, anxious artists. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Originality category:

All art is derivative. There is no form of art that is totally original... 'originality' is a modern art construct... a silly concession to marketing concerns. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Painting category:

You need both a bit of mind and a bit of mindlessness to make a painting. It's a play between control and surrender. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Plein Air category:

Plein air paintings are a bit like short poems. These poems are not deep and heavy but more light and breezy. A good poet might write a bunch of them and throw away more than a few. A plein air painting is rough and reveals a good deal more about the artist than a studio job. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Survival category:

I hope to be one of the survivors but, as in painting, there are no guarantees. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Technology category:

There are no cops on the Internet. Dishonesty, deceit, manipulation are the norm and not the exception. It is a depressing example of unrestrained human nature in action. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Theory category:

Theorists seem to quiver over Cezanne's paintings and puff them up to mythological proportions... We ought to look at them without this theoretical baggage and appreciate them for their actual qualities. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Thinking category:

Contrary to the modernist dogma, painting is a brainy activity. Thinking, in my view, is always welcome at the easel. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul deMarrais - From the Values category:

When beginning artists understand and use values for the first time, there is usually a quantum leap in the quality of their painting. (Paul deMarrais)

Paul Dirac - From the Religion category:

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. (Paul Dirac)

Paul Dixon - From the Experiments category:

What works for one artist doesn't necessarily work for another - try anything and everything and go with what works for you. (Paul Dixon)

Paul Dixon - From the Fun category:

Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got. Break the rules, be different, be dynamic, but above all, be yourself! And have fun doing it! (Paul Dixon)

Paul Laurence Dunbar - From the Prayer category:

It is not a carol of joy or glee, / But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core... I know why the caged bird sings! (Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Paul Eldridge - From the Emotion category:

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. (Paul Eldridge)

Paul Eldridge - From the Genius category:

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us. (Paul Eldridge)

Paul Eldridge - From the Quotations category:

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. (Paul Eldridge)

Paul Emsley - From the Subject category:

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry. (Paul Emsley)

Pauline Ewart - From the Gratitude category:

If you can't work with what God has given you, how is He going to entrust you with more? (Pauline Ewart)

Paul Foxton - From the Exploration category:

You can accelerate your development by giving yourself a fresh set of challenges, or the same set viewed from a different angle, every day. Explore a different path – if it's a dead end, explore another. (Paul Foxton)

Paul Foxton - From the Information category:

This is the most interesting period for artists. Never before has so much diversity been acceptable. Never before has so much information been readily available to aspiring artists. All you need to do is connect. (Paul Foxton)

Paul Foxton - From the Progress category:

Denying the quick fix and accepting that slow, steady practice is the only reliable way to progress allows us to achieve our goals. No plastic surgery can give you a painter's eye. It must be patiently developed over years. (Paul Foxton)

Paul Foxton - From the Responsibility category:

Taking responsibility is liberating because it allows us to accept that our mistakes are our own – and that means we have the power to put them right. (Paul Foxton)

Paul Fussell - From the Optimism category:

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. (Paul Fussell)

Paul Fussell - From the Religion category:

-dated: 1971...
There is no Apocalypse. (Paul Fussell)

Paul Fussell - From the Time category:

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm. (Paul Fussell)

Paul Fussell - From the Tradition category:

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience. (Paul Fussell)

Paul Fussell - From the Writing category:

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. (Paul Fussell)

Paul Gachet - From the Belief category:

-on Van Gogh...
The words 'love of art' are scarcely applicable to him; one ought to say: belief unto martyrdom. (Paul Gachet)

Paul Gardner, arts writer - From the Artists category:

The artist is not a neurotic. To be an artist is a guarantee of sanity. (Paul Gardner, arts writer)

Paul Gardner, arts writer - From the Painting category:

A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places. (Paul Gardner, arts writer)

Paul Gardner, arts writer - From the Portraiture category:

-referring to Bette Midler...
Her eyebrows are clipped parentheses and she paints herself for the last days of the Weimar Republic. Frizzy orange curls grow in her wild hair like snapdragons pleading for water. (Paul Gardner, arts writer)

Paul Gauguin - From the Abstraction category:

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Aging category:

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Art category:

Art = a mad search for individualism. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Art category:

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Artists category:

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Beauty category:

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Beginning category:

Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Burning category:

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered? (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Colour category:

-on Vincent Van Gogh...
Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent... When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion? (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Colour category:

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Colour category:

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Colour category:

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Colour category:

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Comprehension category:

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Confidence category:

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Copying category:

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Courage category:

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas? (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Courage category:

I begin to feel an enormous need to become savage and to create a new world. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Critics category:

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Critics category:

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic – the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling – is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble – the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Determination category:

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Doubt category:

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Drawing category:

A critic at my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings! Never! They are my letters, my secrets. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Dreams category:

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Fantasy category:

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Finishing category:

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Freedom category:

All the joys – animal and human – of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Future category:

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Future category:

I have come to an unalterable decision – to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Gender category:

Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman... we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled... our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Greatness category:

In matters of art one's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Happiness category:

Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Impotence category:

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Instinct category:

-on a Tahitian queen...
With the beautiful instinct of her race she dispersed grace everywhere about her, and made everything she touched a work of art. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Life category:

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Light category:

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Light category:

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Masters category:

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody! (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Masters category:

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Mediocrity category:

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Memory category:

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Models category:

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Models category:

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Moderation category:

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Money category:

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist! (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Mysteries category:

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Mysteries category:

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul – a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Nature category:

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Nature category:

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Nature category:

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Nudes category:

A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Observation category:

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Painting category:

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Peace category:

Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Philosophy category:

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

Paul Gauguin - From the Photography category:

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? – photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can! (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Plagiarism category:

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist! (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Poetry category:

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Progress category:

Go on working, freely and furiously, and you will make progress. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Recognition category:

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth – if you have any. Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Religion category:

They dream, they love, they sleep, they sing, they pray, and it seems that Christianity has not yet penetrated to this place. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Renewal category:

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Sacrifice category:

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Satisfaction category:

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority – the satisfaction of a duty accomplished. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Seeing category:

I shut my eyes in order to see. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Shock category:

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Silence category:

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Simplicity category:

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Solitude category:

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Solitude category:

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Suffering category:

I am a great artist and I know it. The reason I am great is because of all the suffering I have done. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Talent category:

Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside – I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little – or there are many fools. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Taste category:

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow... (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Technique category:

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Time category:

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Tones category:

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Tones category:

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Tradition category:

Oh! The old European traditions! The timidities of expression of degenerate races! (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Truth category:

I am entering into the truth, into nature. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Work category:

The work of a man is the explanation of the man. (Paul Gauguin)

Paul Gauguin - From the Work category:

-in Tahiti...
Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature. (Paul Gauguin)

J. Paul Getty - From the Individuality category:

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. (J. Paul Getty)

Paul Goodman - From the Artists category:

All men are creative but few are artists. (Paul Goodman)

Paul Hawken - From the Change category:

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself. (Paul Hawken)

Paul Hawken - From the Happiness category:

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. (Paul Hawken)

John Paul Jones - From the Future category:

I have not yet begun to fight. (John Paul Jones)

Pauline Kael - From the Art category:

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. (Pauline Kael)

Pauline Kael - From the Courage category:

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. (Pauline Kael)

Pauline Kael - From the Creativity category:

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much." (Pauline Kael)

Pauline Kael - From the Pleasure category:

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. (Pauline Kael)

Paul Kane - From the Memory category:

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol. (Paul Kane)

Paul Kane - From the Painting category:

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. (Paul Kane)

Paul Kane - From the Photography category:

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut. (Paul Kane)

Paul Kane - From the Politics category:

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask – obviously – but the face of Capitalism has no face at all. (Paul Kane)

Paul Kane - From the Spontaneity category:

It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity. (Paul Kane)

Paul Kane - From the Struggle category:

The struggle between art and mastery is like the struggle between spontaneity and persistence. When they become one, it is indeed rare and hard won. (Paul Kane)

Paul Kane - From the Tyranny category:

It's the tyranny of the norm. They are attempting to redefine normal as good. Normal can be controlled, is control. Good can't be. Good has a wildness to it. (Paul Kane)

Paul Keating - From the Fear category:

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. (Paul Keating)

Paul Klee - From the Abstraction category:

The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Activity category:

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Beauty category:

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Beginning category:

It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Beginning category:

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Burning category:

A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Change category:

Becoming is superior to being. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Character category:

I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Colour category:

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Colour category:

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Colour category:

Colour and I are one. I am a painter. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Colour category:

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will pursue me always, I know it. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Colour category:

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Composition category:

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political – satirical – conceits expressed in one figure or a few. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Creativity category:

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact – in the future. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Creativity category:

The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Desire category:

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Dreams category:

Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Energy category:

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Fear category:

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them... (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Form category:

The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Genius category:

Genius is the error in the system. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Goals category:

Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Harmony category:

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Health category:

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Humanity category:

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Light category:

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Lines category:

A line is a dot that went for a walk. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Mysteries category:

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Nature category:

In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises... (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Painting category:

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

Paul Klee - From the Painting category:

I paint in order not to cry. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Production category:

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being... (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Reality category:

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Renewal category:

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Seeing category:

The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Seeing category:

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Simplicity category:

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Simplicity category:

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Space category:

Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Spirituality category:

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright... They are all very kind to me. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Studio category:

All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either... (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee - From the Vision category:

Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible. (Paul Klee)

Paula Bachtiger Kling - From the Finishing category:

The best part is: I'm never finished! There are always new angles, new shadows, new lights... (Paula Bachtiger Kling)

Paul De Man - From the Fashion category:

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. (Paul De Man)

Paul McCartney - From the Eccentricity category:

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. (Paul McCartney)

Paul McCartney - From the Loneliness category:

All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Paul McCartney)

Paul McCartney - From the Sadness category:

Sadness isn't sadness, it's happiness in a black jacket... tears are not tears, they're balls of laughter dipped in salt. (Paul McCartney)

Paula Modersohn-Becker - From the Aging category:

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair. (Paula Modersohn-Becker)

Paula Modersohn-Becker - From the Vulnerability category:

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come. (Paula Modersohn-Becker)

Paul Monette - From the Artists category:

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood. (Paul Monette)

Paul Murray - From the Pastels category:

Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas. (Paul Murray)

Paul Nash - From the Mysteries category:

There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery. (Paul Nash)

Paul Newton - From the Portraiture category:

As a portrait artist, how do you keep variety in your work? You are fundamentally dealing with a human being who looks like every other human – that is, two eyes, a nose, a mouth. How do you keep from repeating yourself? (Paul Newton)

Paul Newton - From the Tones category:

Tonal hierarchy prevents visual anarchy. (Paul Newton)

Paul Nitze - From the Mistakes category:

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. (Paul Nitze)

Pope John Paul II - From the Beauty category:

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. (Pope John Paul II)

Pope John Paul II - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons. (Pope John Paul II)

Pope John Paul II - From the Obligation category:

Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole. (Pope John Paul II)

Pope John Paul II - From the Purpose category:

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. (Pope John Paul II)

Suhasini Paul - From the Belief category:

Many of us think we are different. But few believe - they can make a difference. (Suhasini Paul)

Suhasini Paul - From the Design category:

Design for joy! (Suhasini Paul)

Wolfgang Pauli - From the Mistakes category:

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. (Wolfgang Pauli)

Edgar Paulik - From the Collectors category:

If I won $25 million I'd spend $30 million overnight on art work. (Edgar Paulik)

Edgar Paulik - From the Collectors category:

What is a collector? It's an innate trait. We start as children collecting leaves, or stamps or stones and, as we get older, teens collect friends, CDs and, as an adult, it can be anything. (Edgar Paulik)

Edgar Paulik - From the Collectors category:

I have yet to meet a collector who feels bad about his collection. Collection is also about the story – the story behind how someone found it and purchased it... (Edgar Paulik)

Edgar Paulik - From the Space category:

I can't stand to see any white space on my walls. My art covers every inch. (Edgar Paulik)

Linus Carl Pauling - From the Ideas category:

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. (Linus Carl Pauling)

Paul Rand - From the Rejection category:

-attributed...
If you can't make it good, make it big. (Paul Rand)

Paula Rego - From the Change category:

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Collage category:

In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Desire category:

I've needed an impulse from within, a lot of emotional energy to do this stuff, and a kind of desire. It's a very aggressive thing... It's not an aggression like you're hitting it; it's a sensual aggression, if you like. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Discovery category:

To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things... (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Dissatisfaction category:

Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Fashion category:

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Interpretation category:

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Models category:

-on Lila Nunes...
She is not a model like the usual kind of model; she's collaborating in this thing... she has a knack of getting herself into the right position... like when [as a child] you have your best friend come over and you play at things. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Modernism category:

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Poetry category:

Poetry is good for unleashing images. (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Space category:

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right... (Paula Rego)

Paula Rego - From the Studio category:

I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch away at them. (Paula Rego)

Paul Reps - From the Activity category:

Draw this line, only as you feel it to be the most worthwhile act of your life. (Paul Reps)

Paul Reps - From the Discovery category:

Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what. (Paul Reps)

Paul Reps - From the Meaning category:

The line comes before meaning. (Paul Reps)

Michel Paul Richard - From the Amusement category:

I trust that those who do not find my epigrams amusing will at least find them offensive. (Michel Paul Richard)

Paul Richard - From the Colour category:

Colours are promiscuous. They get infected by their neighbors. (Paul Richard)

Paul Richard - From the Technology category:

Video displays never get the colours right. Pixels aren’t paint; canvases are not packets of digitized information – they’re complicated objects, changeable as wine, getting older every day. (Paul Richard)

Jean Paul Richter - From the Art category:

Art is not the bread, but the wine of life. (Jean Paul Richter)

Jean Paul Richter - From the Courage category:

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. (Jean Paul Richter)

Jean Paul Richter - From the Pleasure category:

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. (Jean Paul Richter)

Jean Paul Richter - From the Time category:

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. (Jean Paul Richter)

Peter Paul Rubens - From the Colour category:

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights. (Peter Paul Rubens)

Paul Russo - From the Colour category:

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed. (Paul Russo)

Paul Russo - From the Culture category:

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards. (Paul Russo)

Paul A. Samuelson - From the Questions category:

Good questions outrank easy answers. (Paul A. Samuelson)

Paul Sandip - From the Advice category:

UseLess - DoMore. (Paul Sandip)

Paul Sandip - From the Design category:

Design isn't USELESS, it's better USED:LESS. (Paul Sandip)

Paul Sandip - From the Design category:

Good design has no definition, needs no explanation. It has only sensation. (Paul Sandip)

Paul Sandip - From the Performance category:

The world is my stage, India is my green room. (Paul Sandip)

Paul Sandip - From the Prosperity category:

I am too creative to die hungry. (Paul Sandip)

Paul Sandip - From the Seeing category:

Look... don't see! (Paul Sandip)

Paul Sandip - From the Work category:

I don't work... I only play. That's how I design. (Paul Sandip)

Paul R. Scheele - From the Optimism category:

The phrase 'I can't' is the most powerful force of negation in the human psyche. (Paul R. Scheele)

Paul Serusier - From the Beauty category:

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object. (Paul Serusier)

Paul Signac - From the Criticism category:

Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet. (Paul Signac)

Paul Signac - From the Future category:

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future. (Paul Signac)

Paul Signac - From the Individuality category:

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. (Paul Signac)

Paul Simon - From the Information category:

These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information... (Paul Simon)

Paul Simon - From the Risk category:

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do. (Paul Simon)

Paul Soderberg - From the Mentors category:

Art's golden thread of mentors stretches not just into the ancient past, but also far into the future. (Paul Soderberg)

Paul Soderberg - From the Mentors category:

More than mere teachers, mentors are often emancipators, freeing artists from poor technique, clouded vision and personal uncertainty. (Paul Soderberg)

Paul Soderberg - From the Seeing category:

One day, while Renoir was being fitted for new eyeglasses, he threw them to the floor, crying, "Good God, I see like Bouguereau!" (Paul Soderberg)

Paul Sweeney - From the Success category:

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. (Paul Sweeney)

Paul Allen Taylor - From the Anxiety category:

Let the anxiety flow out of our bodies, relish the solitude of our creative abilities and believe in ourselves. (Paul Allen Taylor)

Paul Allen Taylor - From the Painting category:

Painting is much like fishing. Sometimes we get hits and sometimes we get a glimpse of the phantom of the deep. Sometimes we sit adrift. But sooner or later, we get a keeper. (Paul Allen Taylor)

Paul Allen Taylor - From the Teaching category:

Sometimes the toughest student is right under your nose. (Paul Allen Taylor)

Paul Theroux - From the Eroticism category:

-Hotel Honolulu, (ch. 1)
Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Expectation category:

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Friendship category:

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Friendship category:

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Grace category:

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Journey category:

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Life category:

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Money category:

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Painting category:

Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Reality category:

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Time category:

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Travel category:

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. (Paul Theroux)

Paul Theroux - From the Writing category:

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. (Paul Theroux)

John Paul Thornton - From the Courage category:

Courage always starts out by feeling like fear. Fear is an invitation for us to respond with belief in ourselves. (John Paul Thornton)

John Paul Thornton - From the Life category:

-Art and Courage
Through art, people may transform into their highest selves at vital points in their life story. (John Paul Thornton)

Paul Tillich - From the Anxiety category:

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Awareness category:

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Boredom category:

Boredom is rage spread thin. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Choices category:

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Courage category:

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Destiny category:

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Doubt category:

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, it is one element of faith. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Failure category:

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Fear category:

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Greatness category:

We can do not great things - only small things with great love. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Hope category:

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Knowledge category:

He who knows about depth knows about God. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Life category:

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Listening category:

The first duty of love is to listen. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Music category:

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Nature category:

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Philosophy category:

Astonishment is the root of philosophy. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Questions category:

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Religion category:

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Symbols category:

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Tradition category:

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. (Paul Tillich)

Paul Tillich - From the Words category:

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. (Paul Tillich)

Paula Timpson - From the Life category:

As the wings of the world flutter, may our lives dance in the silence of the stars. (Paula Timpson)

Dr. Paul Tournier - From the Consideration category:

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. (Dr. Paul Tournier)

Paul Valery - From the Ego category:

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Expression category:

We must always apologize for talking painting. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Freedom category:

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Future category:

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Poetry category:

My poems mean what people take them to mean. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Seeing category:

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Seeing category:

What Degas called "a way of seeing" must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will. (Paul Valery)

Paul Valery - From the Work category:

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. (Paul Valery)

Paul Virilio - From the Vision category:

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the back-ground, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice. (Paul Virilio)

Dr. Paul Wolf - From the Health category:

Had better treatments been available to certain artists of the past, they might not have found their inspiration. (Dr. Paul Wolf)

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun - From the Artists category:

We always get the shit end of the stick, so I figure, why not paint the shit end of the stick? (Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun)

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun - From the Artists category:

-from Bordercrossings interview 2001...
I was probably one of the first artists to pry the anthropologists from my leg, where they were hanging like little puppies. (Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun)