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Artist's Quotes: Matisse
A collection of quotes from the French artist Henri Mattise about painting, creativity, and art.

Painting Quotes
A collection of quotes on painting and art from artists, art critics, and the like.

Artist’s Quotes: Vincent van Gogh on Painting Trees
A collection of quotes from Vincent van Gogh on the delights and challenges of painting trees

Artist's Quotes: Talent
A collection of artist's quotes on talent and creativity.

Artist's Quotes: Dealing with Criticism
Artist's Quotes -- a collection of quotes from artists on dealing with criticism.

Quotes from the artist Lucian Freud.
A collection of inspirational quotes from the artist Lucian Freud.

Inspirational Quotes for Artists
A collection of quotes for artists to renew your inspiration and motivation.

Artist’s quotes: Willem de Kooning
A collection quotes from the artist Willem de Kooning, an American expressionist painter.

Artist's Quotes: On Painting
What various famous artists have had to say about the practicalities, problems, and creative challenges of painting.

Artist's Quotes: Artists On Colour
What famous artists have had to say about colour, how they see it and how they use it.

Artist's Quotes: Artists On Their Models
What famous artists have had to say about the models they have worked with, and models about artists.

Artist's Quotes: Jackson Pollock
Quotes from the American Abstract Expressionist painter best-known for his 'drip' paintings.

Artist's Quotes: Vincent van Gogh
Quotes from the Dutch Post-Impressionist, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) noted for his expressive use of color (and for cutting off a piece of an ear).

Artist's Quotes: Degas
Quotes from the French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) best known for his pastels of ballet dancers.

Artist's Quotes: Leonardo da Vinci
Quotes from the renowned Italian Renaissance painter, sculpture, architect, and engineer. Did you know Da Vinci recommended using a mirror to check the perspective in a painting?

Artist's Quotes: Lucien Freud
Quotes from Lucien Freud (grandson of the originator of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud) who is considered by many critics to be Britain's best figurative painter.

Artist's Quotes: Paul Cezanne
Quotes from the French Postimpressionist who was to be a great influence on modern art, especially Cubism.

Artist's Quotes: Evard Munch
Quotes from the Norwegian painter best known for the painting The Scream, which was inspired by his sister's death from tuberculosis.

Artist's Quotes: Claude Monet
Quotes from the French Impressionist who was fascinated by the effect of light at different times of the day.

Artist's Quotes: The French Impressionists
Quotes from and on Impressionist painters such as Manet, Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Pissaro, and Sisley.

Artist's Quotes: Wassily Kandinsky
Quotes from the artist credited as having created the first abstract watercolour.

Artist's Quotes: Matisse on Creativity
A paraphrased quote from Henri Matisse comparing creativity with talent.

Artist's Quotes: Artists on Originality
Quotes from artists on the need to be original, such as Delacroix’s “What moves men of genius ... is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."

Artist's Quotes: On Becoming an Artist
Quotes from artists on why people become artists, on encouragement, and on frustration, such as John Sloan’s "Though a living cannot be made at art, art makes life worth living.”