Action Quote by Claes Oldenburg

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction…

— Kehinde Wiley

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

— Glenn Ligon

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the…

— James Elkins

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is…

— Jackson Pollock

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is…

— Richard Grieco

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get…

— Cy Twombly

When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner…

— Walter J. Phillips

I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But…

— Nate Berkus

I want painting to be difficult to do.

— Richard Diebenkorn

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

— Stephane Mallarme