Affect Quote by Gerhard Richter

Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can…

— Gerhard Richter

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'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from…

— Sam Richardson

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

— Tori Amos

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

You become an artist to upset your family.

— Gunter Brus

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse

My family has always been inclined to any form of art.

— Manini Mishra

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up…

— John Dyer

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

— Henri Matisse