expressive symbolism Quotes

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for its power to stir the passions and she rebelled before the mysteries of faith just as she grew ever more restive under discipline, which was antipathetic to her nature.

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...