Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle.…

— Winston Churchill

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

— Willem de Kooning

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me,…

— Frank Stella

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture…

— John Singer Sargent

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

— Beatrix Farrand

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

— Sting

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing…

— Henry Miller

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

— Shelley Winters

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines.

— Logic

I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out…

— Andy Warhol

I guess that's a chance you have to take when you try to do anything different or creative or artsy. You can't just keep…

— Ryan Bingham

There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose…

— Patrick Reed

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

— Mark Rothko