Ifs Quote by Andy Warhol

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

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

— Leonora Carrington

When one is painting one does not think.

— Raphael

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it…

— Pablo Picasso

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather…

— Ben Shahn

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Ali Banisadr

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

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture…

— Richard Schmid