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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

All art is about appealing to emotion.