Inspirational Quote by Georg Baselitz

No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed so many…

— Georg Baselitz

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

— Anonymous

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

— Georges Seurat

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

— Peter Wright

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

— Robert Henri

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

— Gerhard Richter

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint...

— Keith Haring

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of…

— Andrew Wyeth