Artist Quote by Alfred Sisley

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

— Walter Darby Bannard

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

— Les Wexner

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

— William Lyon Phelps

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

— Michael Craig-Martin

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

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

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

“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till people come…

— P.G. Wodehouse

I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a…

— Peter Falk

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell