K. Nathan Gallery - Early California and Fine Pre-1970 American Paintings

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Every good painter paints what he is.

To create one’s own world takes courage..

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Every good painter paints what he is.

To create one’s own world takes courage.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.

In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Creativity takes courage.

I assure you, no art was less spontaneous than mine.

One sees what one wants to see. It is false, and that falsity is the foundation of art.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

A certain blue enters your soul.

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Everything you can imagine is real.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. Three madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

Art is to console those who are broken.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Close friends are truly life's treasures. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our treats. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

The real subject of every painting is light.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Above all, keep your colors fresh.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

K Nathan Gallery