All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them…

“When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his…

— Ingo F. Walther

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

— Anthony Jeselnik

“If computers make us smarter, computers running the Master Algorithm will make us feel like geniuses.”

— Pedro Domingos

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that?…

— Pablo Picasso

Paint what you like and die happy

— Henry Miller

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

When I was a kid, I always used to paint. I like to draw.

— Marky Ramone

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

— Joseph Plaskett

It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking…

— James Elkins

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

— Philip Guston

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

— Karel Appel

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

— James Thomson

“I wish I could paint like Raphael," Lucio said. "I'd paint you! You should smile more often - it's like dawn breaking over a…

— Kate Forsyth

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

— David Hockney