To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are…

Live to paint, don't paint to live.

— Walter Darby Bannard

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Often I combine many sources to create one painting, so it is not usually one particular experience or moment that leads to its creation.…

— Rosson Crow

Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a new concept…

— Martin Lindstrom

I think I get into the paint and create for others with the best of them.

— De'Aaron Fox

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

— Willem de Kooning

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the…

— James Elkins

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

— Bernard Malamud

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