Artist Quote by Grandma Moses

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

— Douglas Lockwood

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

I paint with my back to the world

— Agnes Martin

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

— Arshile Gorky

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

— Amy Sherald

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks.…

— John French Sloan

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

— Ronnie Wood

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so…

— Grandma Moses

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the…

— Agnes Denes

I paint life as I would like it to be,

— Norman Rockwell

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

— Frida Kahlo