Giving Quote by Glenn Ligon

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

— Katherine Bernhardt

At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing…

— Glenn Ligon

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

Paint faster than you can think.

— Alex Katz

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

— Joaquin Sorolla

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

— Edgar Degas

What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing and having…

— Kehinde Wiley

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.

— Iman Shumpert

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of…

— David Foster Wallace

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

— Claude Monet