Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all…

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even…

— David Milne

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique…

— Walter J. Phillips

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak,…

— Camille Pissarro

Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable,…

— Walter J. Phillips

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would…

— Nicolas Roeg

There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting…

— Walter J. Phillips

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for…

— Walter J. Phillips

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive…

— Hugh Laurie

With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a…

— Andrew Wyeth

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree…

— Walter J. Phillips

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another…

— David Hockney

“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.”

— Truth Devour

“On one wall there was a recent watercolour — Saint E.O. Wilson of Hymenoptera”

— Margaret Atwood