Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. - Henry Moore

Pictures must not be too picturesque. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - André Gide

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. - The New Yorker

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. - Fran Lebowitz

Great art picks up where nature ends. - Marc Chagall