Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Art gives people a reason to be alive.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
Art is life's dream interpretation.
Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.