No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to…

“You have to work with the paint and work with whatever the day brings you. If it's a wee bit dreary out, you paint…

— Kieran Kramer

As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint…

— Milton Resnick

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you…

— Helen Van Wyk

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

— Robert Henri

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

— Robert Ryman

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

— Joaquin Sorolla

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

— Margaret Atwood

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other…

— Ernest Hemingway

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

— Willem de Kooning

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

— Jean-Paul Riopelle

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

— Man Ray

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction…

— Kehinde Wiley

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square,…

— Lee Krasner

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they…

— Isaac Slade