Being Quote by Gerhard Richter

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather…

— Lucian Freud

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it…

— Al Pacino

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

— Claude Monet

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

— Yoko Ono

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

— Jackson Pollock

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

— Jamie Wyeth

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

— Pierre Soulages

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

— Winston Churchill