Georges Seurat (1859–1891) French painter
quote from Seurat, John Russell; Thames & Hudson, London 1965 ISBN 0-500-20032-7
undated quotes
Door de dieren heen schilder ik mijn eigen conflicten.<br><br>Quote of Kruyders, as cited by Benoit Hameleers, on the website of Stichting Sjef Hutsch http://www.stichtingsjefhutsch.nl/nieuws.html <br class="br">undated quotes
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) French painter
quote from Seurat, John Russell; Thames & Hudson, London 1965 ISBN 0-500-20032-7
undated quotes
“Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
Variant: I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads
Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Mirco Bergamasco (1983) Italian rugby union player
"Naked Mirco Bergamasco Takes Flight in Racy New PETA Ad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csLPQ1YxQic, video interview with PETA (18 July 2017).
Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) American painter
Quote of c. 1977, as quoted in 'The Portraitist', Berkson, Bill (1992), Modern Painters: pp. 40–42
1972 - 1989
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) French artist and painter
Chagall stated this in 1950
as quoted in From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, Matthew B. Hoffman; Stanford University Press, 2007, p. 219
after 1930
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) American artist
In 'Possibilities', Vol. 1, no 1, winter 1947-48, p. 79; as quoted in Jackson Pollock (1983) by Elizabeth Frank, p. 68
1940's