Aim Quote by Claude Monet

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique…

— A. Y. Jackson

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least…

— Susan Minot

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief.…

— Tino Sehgal

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them,…

— Joan Mitchell

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

— Arshile Gorky

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

— Amy Sherald

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

— Pablo Picasso

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

— Maurice Denis

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald