Left Quote by Alan Bean

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of…

— E. J. Hughes

I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling…

— Caio Fonseca

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

— Cy Twombly

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

— Barnett Newman

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good…

— Claude Monet

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

— Janet Evanovich

Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like, once you…

— Dimple Kapadia

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

— Julian Schnabel

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

— Doris McCarthy