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... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…

— Brenda Ueland

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

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and…

— Edvard Munch

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

— Sara Genn

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I…

— Henry Flynt

“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you…

— John Berger

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

— Winston Churchill

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

— Bob Ross

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti