Choosing the right color that is the right shape, of the right consistency, of the right value and temperature, and putting it in exactly the right place—that’s the job of the painter.

"A tree never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings, nor in frivolous waste of energy."

Kollwitz’s work documents moving and intense moments in ordinary lives stricken by war, poverty, sorrow, loss, and premature death, as well the stubborn resilience of bravery, love, and the struggle for peace that can overcome them. 

Getting an accurate image down is hard enough, then there's getting the LIFE into it.

I believe with Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940) that “a picture is a thought or feeling expressed in terms of Nature.”

The human need to examine itself in the mirror of art begins with early civilization, and portraiture is one of its classic and oldest forms. 

Levitan's work is filled with profound feeling. His landscapes are meaningful beyond simply the view he's chosen to depict.

It’s part of the contract you signed when you fell in love with art.

I think it's true that great, original art changes the way we see the world. I mean literally changes the visual "reality" of what the world looks and feels like to a given individual.

Did you know that the Olympics once included gold, bronze, and silver medal categories for painting?