Artist Quote by El Greco

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

— Brian Froud

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

— Meher Baba

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to…

— Lucian Freud

Why talk when you can paint?

— Milton Avery

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

— Man Ray

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

— Rene Magritte

I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games…

— Paula Rego

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read…

— Keith Haring