Artist Quote by Bob Ross

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking…

— Mordicai Gerstein

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

— John Kurtz

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not…

— Sergei Bongart

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

— Harold Rosenberg

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

— Berthe Morisot

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

— Paul Strisik

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

— Barnett Newman