What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere…

“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

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

Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure…

— Robert A. Lovett

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

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

“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