„The clean clear colours [of a Shanty farm] were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought ‘I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try — all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.’ In my next show [c. 1923], ‘The Shanty’ went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint…. that was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.“

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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„One sunny spring day I heard the music coming down Karl Johan [street] and it filled me with joy. The spring, the sun, the music, all blended together to make me shiver with pleasure. The music added colour to the colours. I painted the picture [his painting 'Music on Karl Johan'] allowing the colours to reverberate with the rhythm of the music. I painted the colours as I saw them at that moment.“
— Edvard Munch
„I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.“
— Frida Kahlo
„I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.“
— Frida Kahlo