Bigger Quote by Emily Carr

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

— Richard Schmid

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

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

— A. S. Byatt

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

— Winslow Homer

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and…

— Vija Celmins

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

— Sylvester Stallone

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong.…

— Andy Warhol

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 what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you…

— Helen Van Wyk

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

— Anonymous