Different people Quote by Anthony Johnson

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and…

— Edvard Munch

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

— Roger de Grey

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

— Ralph Allen

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

— Ben Shahn

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

— Emily Carr

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

— Salvador Dali

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden