If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as…

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

— John Mellencamp

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or…

— Nelson Goodman

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

— Pablo Picasso

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

— Grace Slick

Paint what you like and die happy

— Henry Miller

“Peeta doesn’t need a brush to paint images from the Games. He works just as well in words.”

— Suzanne Collins

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

— Harvey Dunn

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

“We were poor, but we were happy. We didn’t have much, but we were painting. (Interview in Washington Mag)”

— Alfredo Arreguin

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

— Mackenzie Foy