Believe Quote by Gerhard Richter

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice…

— Ben Shahn

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

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a…

— Willem de Kooning

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

— Pierce Brosnan

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

— Chris Ofili

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

— Robert Henri

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

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

— Ron Parker

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and…

— Edvard Munch

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

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

— Ali Banisadr