Disappointment Quote by Agnes Martin

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at…

— Eugene Delacroix

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

— Paul Cezanne

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.

— Diane Arbus

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

— Brian Johnson

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

— Hans Hofmann

I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something…

— J. August Richards

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 through. You…

— Andrew McDermott