Diary Quote by Heart Evangelista

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history…

— Kehinde Wiley

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle,…

— Robert Rauschenberg

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've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form…

— Judi Dench

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I…

— Black Francis

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

— Georg Baselitz

I don't know what I'm painted as. I can be happy as hell and then someone says something and I feel different. People are…

— Anthony Johnson

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular -…

— April Gornik

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

— Franz Kline

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns