We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn’t, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. – Helen Frankenthaler
My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted. – Georges Rouault
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn’t have the content. – James Rosenquist
No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. – Charlie Hunnam
A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. – Chester W. Nimitz
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter’s hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. – John Updike
The painter… does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. – Annie Dillard
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. – Jasper Johns
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn’t have to paint at all. – Alberto Giacometti
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn’t starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else. – Arthur Boyd
I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who – he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays. – Anthony Quinn