I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it. — Janet Fish Copy Share Image
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next. — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I… — Peter Falk Copy Share Image
If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow… — Andrew McDermott Copy Share Image
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem,… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
You know, I'm incredibly blessed to be able to have this level of choice as an artist today. In this economy, it's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like,… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
