Boat Quote by E. J. Hughes

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

— William Hazlitt

Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

— Stephen Beal

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'll stick to painting as long as I can.

— Tom Thomson

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow…

— Gerhard Richter

I do believe that painting can change the world.

— David Hockney

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

— John Baldessari

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile…

— Claude Monet

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

— George Grosz

Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture.

— John Marin

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips