Every good painter paints what he is.

“What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?”

— Gregory Maguire

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because…

— Plato

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“every good artist paints what he is”

— Jackson Pollock

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

— Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and…

— Dogen

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.

— Dave Genn

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

— John Berger

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

— Jisoo