Bird Quote by Ali Banisadr

When one is painting one does not think.

— Raphael

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

— Alice Neel

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

— Matt Smith

If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with…

— Ross Bleckner

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the…

— Thomas Kinkade

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you…

— David Hockney

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the…

— Claes Oldenburg

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the…

— Gerhard Richter

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and…

— Walter Darby Bannard

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it,…

— Anonymous

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which…

— George Frederic Watts