Art Quote by Albert Oehlen

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and…

— Ellsworth Kelly

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

— Henri Matisse

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get…

— Cy Twombly

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

— John Hurt

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

— Georg Baselitz

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

— Eric Maisel

Why try to explain away a portrait of You painted by the insecurities of another? You didn't pick the brushes, the colors, nor the…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about…

— William Dobell

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want…

— Dan Colen

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

— Anonymous

“Oil paints were wiser to the human condition, understanding our imperfections and giving us enough time to rework ourselves until we made things right.”

— S. Walden