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It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at…

— John Updike

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

— James Elkins

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

— Ali Banisadr

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to…

— Jean Dubuffet

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

— John Kurtz

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing,…

— Philip Guston

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though…

— Quentin Blake

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and…

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips