Ideas Quote by Chantal Joffe

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

— Judy Chicago

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes,…

— Henri Matisse

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

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

— Helen Frankenthaler

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— 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

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

— Alice Neel

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

— Millard Sheets

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge