Begin again Quote by Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

— Edouard Manet

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

— Stephane Mallarme

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

— Annie Dillard

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

— Philip Guston

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint…

— Philip Guston

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all…

— Leland Bell

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

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

— Ali Banisadr

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

— Robert Henri

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

— Thomas Eakins

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb