Business Quote by Edward Hopper

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

— Robert Henri

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

— John Dyer

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

— Brenda Ueland

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on…

— Lucian Freud

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new…

— Nelson Shanks

Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules…

— Camille Pissarro

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

— Winston Churchill

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

— Abbie Cornish

Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research -…

— Camille Henrot

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

— John Dyer