Care Quote by Arshile Gorky

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong.…

— Andy Warhol

Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company. It's an…

— Larry Gagosian

I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

— Chuck Close

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

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

— Oriana Fallaci

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that…

— Grandma Moses

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

— Auguste Rodin

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

— Roger de Grey

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

— Jasper Johns

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick